RE: Why am I me?
October 24, 2012 at 9:50 am
(This post was last modified: October 24, 2012 at 9:57 am by Edwardo Piet.)
To address the original post, you are you because you can't not be you otherwise you wouldn't be you. That explains the "you" that is your identity.
But, seriously, to explain your existence rather than your identity: you are you because of either a predetermined causal chain or a probabilistically undetermined, but nevertheless ostensibly deterministic, chain of physical, chemical, biological and cultural states of existence.
As for the question "why are there states of existence?", "why is there anything at all"? The answer is: because nonexistence by definition can't exist so there just, logically, has to be something.
But, seriously, to explain your existence rather than your identity: you are you because of either a predetermined causal chain or a probabilistically undetermined, but nevertheless ostensibly deterministic, chain of physical, chemical, biological and cultural states of existence.
As for the question "why are there states of existence?", "why is there anything at all"? The answer is: because nonexistence by definition can't exist so there just, logically, has to be something.