Identity - Douglas Coupland

[Somber_Angel]

Douglas Coupland wrote:

We look at a flock of birds and we think one bird is the same as any other bird - a bird unit. But a bird looks a thousands of people, at a Giants game up at Candlestick park, say, and all they see is “people units”. We’re all as identical to them as they are to us. So what makes you different from me? Him from you? Them from her? What makes any one person any different from any other? Where does your individuality end and your specieshood begin? As always, it’s a big question on my mind.

I’m just wondering what people think of this idea of identity and a ‘people unit’. What really does make us different from a ‘bird unit’? Or any other unit for that matter.