Scientifically, why am I me and not someone else?
>>16920573Because you are what makes you you so if you were someone else (ie. not you) then you wouldn't be you.You != !You
I don't know.
>>16920574This is a retarded answer. I am this person != this person is this person.https://unfinishablemap.org/topics/vertiginous-question/>Every attempt to answer the vertiginous question seems to miss its target.>The biological answer: “You are this person because of your DNA, your developmental history, your particular brain.” But this explains how I came to exist as a distinct organism—not why I am experiencing being this organism rather than another. Someone else could have had this DNA, this brain. What makes the experience mine?>The psychological answer: “You are this person because of your memories, personality, and psychological continuity.” But memories and personality are contents of experience, not what makes it my experience. Two people could hypothetically have identical memories; the question of which one I am would remain.>The deflationary answer: “There is no further fact. ‘Why am I this person?’ is like asking ‘Why is this spot here?’—the question presupposes something mysterious where there’s only a brute particular.” But this dismissal doesn’t dissolve the sense that something demands explanation. I don’t merely happen to be this person; I live as this person, from the inside. That lived reality seems to be a fact—but what kind of fact?>The vertiginous question reveals that first-person indexicality (“I,” “mine,” “here,” “now”) may be irreducible. You cannot translate first-person facts into third-person facts without losing something essential.
>>16920573>>16920580consider
what the fuck is up with tungsten cubes tho??
>>16920573There would be something compiled together before the beginning here, and we would be taking from it from the top or the order of it.
>>16920573cause being someone else seemed kind of gay to you
>>16920573Get your ass to Mars.
>>16920573I used to wonder about this too!
Buy an a- oh wait, you already did. FUCK.
>>16920573these are the rules. follow them.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Af-k9sTAYEQ
>>16920573>>>/lit/https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/me
>>16920573Not, true, you are you, I am me.
>>16920573Maybe some are animals because of the phase shift of distance. They would have to center themselves in the environment first.
>>16920573nobody is this retarted
Because your past choices and actions resulted in your most recent birth
