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There is no "I" in "You"
May 17, 2016 at 3:44 pm
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Can anyone answer why you're you.....and not me?
By what method of determination do I experience existence separate from your experience; more to the point, what determined both our particular experiences and could one have been shunt in place of another (by what alternate means could I have experienced existence through your perspective or vice versa)?
Why here, why now...why not exist a thousand years from now or a thousand years past?
Can this ever be coherently approached or determined materialistically/scientifically? Or, is metaphysics a fundamental necessity?
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RE: There is no "I" in "You"
May 17, 2016 at 3:48 pm
(damn, this is my best sock ever !!)
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RE: There is no "I" in "You"
May 17, 2016 at 3:48 pm
"There's no I in you"
Dammit, I thought this was going to be a pickup line thread.
Sorry, in a weird mood.
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RE: There is no "I" in "You"
May 17, 2016 at 3:49 pm
I have two I's.
But seriously, this sounds dangerously close to getting into some Eastern-style oneness or metaphysical consciousness woo.
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RE: There is no "I" in "You"
May 17, 2016 at 3:51 pm
Embrace the dichotomy that is the oneness of dualistic individuality
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RE: There is no "I" in "You"
May 17, 2016 at 4:01 pm
Separate bodies. Separate genetics. Separate minds. Pure chance. Roll of the human genetic dice.
No consciousness without the brain, no afterlife, no metaphysical woo involved.
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RE: There is no "I" in "You"
May 17, 2016 at 4:01 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2016 at 4:01 pm by FatAndFaithless.)
(May 17, 2016 at 3:57 pm)quip Wrote: (May 17, 2016 at 3:49 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I have two I's.
But seriously, this sounds dangerously close to getting into some Eastern-style oneness or metaphysical consciousness woo.
Indeed.
Is there a non-woo answer?
Yes. The non-woo answer is "I don't know. Let's see if we can find out more in the future."
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
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RE: There is no "I" in "You"
May 17, 2016 at 4:07 pm
I don't know, let's see if we can find out more in the future.
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