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6/20/2013 6:47:46 PM
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Why am I me and not you?

Some philosophy student was hanging out with me and my friends and I heard this question. Now it's hurting my god damn head and I have to study for a Calc III exam...-blam!-! So it went like this: [quote]Why am I me and not you? [/quote] And I said: chance, maybe a God(s), complex chemistry...no -blam!-ing clue [quote]"[Insert rambling about Jesus and our Lord and Savior here]"[/quote] ... [quote]just kidding[/quote] And then the subject matter changed, and then we got lunch, Earth continued on it's elliptical orbit around the Sun, etc. But then I thought about it..."why am I me and not you?". Why are we perceiving the world around us through the pair of eyes and ears through the body in which you are in [i]right now[/i] and not through let's say the person sitting behind you? Or why am I perceiving this life through a Human in the first place? Why not a lion, or some other alien on another planet? Why am I living in this time frame, in this century and not during the Roman Empire? Bloody hell...I think I'm rambling now...blah blah blah philosophy...

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  • [quote]One quick answer to this question would be this: definitions. The usual use of the terms "I", "me" and "you", makes it impossible, both practically and theoretically for "you to be me" or vice versa.[/quote]

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