Of all the creatures that have ever lived in the universe, a different galaxy or maybe even a whole new universe. Don’t you find it trully amazing that it has taken this long for ‘‘you’’ to finally get here? Of all the creatures that have ever been, they were not ‘‘you’’ because you are ‘‘you’’. Why wasn’t ‘‘i’’ here up until now? What triggers this phenomona of conciousnouss and is’t it funny how it’s taken this long to finally get here, but we finally made it
Chances are that ‘‘i’’ i wont ever have another chance at this, so why did ‘‘i’’ even become? Our brains fuction in the same way right? So what’s the seperation bewteen me and you? What makes ‘‘you’’ you and not ‘‘me’’?
What are the chances of ‘‘you’’ again? When you die, others will still be around for mllions of years after death, the new born will be here but they will not be ‘‘you’’. So the chances of ‘‘you’’ must be slim, but it has happened…
Why? As soon as there is consciousness ‘me’ will exist. Without conciousness, the question could never have been asked and so there can never be a negative reply to the answer!
Matt, conciousnous is everywhere, but you are not everyone but rather ‘‘you’’ But i can’t get my head around what seperates me from you? Dog/wolf/elephant/ant…why am ‘‘i’’ not inside them but rather inside this? Why is it that when i die, ‘‘i’’ will never be inside another body again?
what seperates “me” from “you” is the same thing that seperates “you” from “you” five minutes ago… “you” are not “you”… when “you” were 5 years old, “you” were “you” as “you” were, but not “you” as “you” exists now…
Ok, but i have always been me and not ‘‘you’’. But how? Don’t mine and your body share the exact same things? The very fundemental part of what gives me the impression of ‘‘me’’ would be exactly the same for you as it is for me right?
If the very structure of my body is what creates the conciousnous of ‘‘me’’, then i will assume that the very structure of your body is what creates your conciousnous of ‘‘you’’. However, our bodies are structured in the exact same ways yet they are not producing the same person in every body. If my body creates ‘‘me’’ and your body is exactly the same as mine then why am ‘‘i’’ not inside your body too?
“If the very structure of my body is what creates the conciousnous of ‘‘me’’, then i will assume that the very structure of your body is what creates your conciousnous of ‘‘you’’. However, our bodies are structured in the exact same ways yet they are not producing the same person in every body. If my body creates ‘‘me’’ and your body is exactly the same as mine then why am ‘‘i’’ not inside your body too?”
Because our forms are differentiated by matter?
Rami, this is a marvelous thing to speculate on. I have no answer for it, but it makes me realise the importance of becoming the best “me” that I can.
It is as amazing as realizing that each of us has consciousness. “To save an individual is to save the universe.”
Ok let’s talk mature. A mature philosopher will give justification for his or her opinion. You claim that ‘you’ is inevitable but give no reason for this. Give a reason. It’s very simple - you need justification for your theses.
See, to me, the probability of me turning out as great of a life-form as I did is too much to leave as happening by chance. You and I both live as human beings. We are constructive, we are continuely advancing ouselves with new knowledge and inventions. We find ways (such as medicines) to keep us alive longer than ever before in history. We have found inumerable methods by which to remain superior over the other forms of life.
We, as human beings, are nothing short than completely unique and special when compared to all other know forms of life.
as far as we have been able to prove to date, no other life form trumps the human being. We hapened to be born at the right time in history where we find ourselves living on the only planet that is capable of supporting us.
we are born into a generation. We become children of our generation by adapting ourselves into the ways and tecnologies of the culture.
we are not some silly, insignificant animal.
As to the direct question originally posed by Rami, I (as my real name) have no sufficient answer to your question…good question, boy!
If the very structure of my body is what creates the conciousnous of ‘‘me’’, then i will assume that the very structure of your body is what creates your conciousnous of ‘‘you’’. However, our bodies are structured in the exact same ways yet they are not producing the same person in every body. If my body creates ‘‘me’’ and your body is exactly the same as mine then why am ‘‘i’’ not inside your body too?
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Refer again to my first post. “You” are just an animal. This animal carries around a brain that collects various sensory data as it journeys through its brief life. As Hume noted, you can’t conceive of anything beyond what the limits of your material form allow, because you’re just a silly animal. There is no inevitability to your being because mostly rational natural conditions created you. You and your tiny perception bubble are a part of the universe, but the universe itself is infinitely larger than you. Compared to what you will never ever know, what you do know is insignificant.
how you define “animal” is very relative. To me, if humans can be considered any animal, we are not insignificant since we are far more superior compared to the rest of the other animals. And, if we are not really an animal, then that fact alone differentiates from all other known forms of life, thus making us significant…it’s really all quite relative.
not at all… what comprizes your body are atoms and molecules which occupy a space and time that is theirs… mine are totally different atoms in totally different spaces and times… totally different things…
because the atoms and molecules are different… it is like making 5 billion copies of a picture… are each copy the same? maybe on the outside appearance (and even that is highly debateable with the differentiations between such a large number) but they are not the same things… the first is the first and the 100,354,945th is a totally different copy… totally different atoms in a totally different space and time…
