RE: Why am I me?
October 16, 2010 at 6:24 am
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2010 at 6:30 am by ChromodynamicGirl.)
(October 12, 2010 at 5:58 pm)R-e-n-n-a-t Wrote: Being conscious individually, as I assume everyone else is, the question comes to mind; why do I exist from a 1st person point of view? Obviously I couldn't exist from a 3rd person POV, but when I die it'll seem to me as if the world ends; MY world will end. How can I explain this... When you sleep without dreaming everything is nonremembered, and seems 'black'. If death is the same, then it'll be lights out for eternity, and therefore I'm wondering why I'm conscious to begin with. Why me? Why here? Why now? Why at all? etc.Because you're a recursive pattern machine. You're a series of historically related patterns in patterns that refer back and forth to one another. You can easily get rid of this with powerful drugs.
Any answers or ideas? I've asked my friends and family, but they don't really grasp the concept of the question.
I recommend Manuel DeLanda on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and materialism. Best philosophical description of consciousness I have ever seen. Also very nicely materialistic. There are several more in this series on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXzc1V2nTKk
"Philosophy would do well to desist from issuing any further injunctions about the need to re-establish the meaningfulness of existence, the purposefulness of life, or mend the shattered concord between man and nature. It should strive to be more than a sop to the pathetic twinge of human self-esteem. Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity." - Ray Brassier
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