RE: There is no "I" in "You"
May 17, 2016 at 4:09 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2016 at 4:10 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 17, 2016 at 3:44 pm)quip Wrote: Can anyone answer why you're you.....and not me?Sure. Different life experiences, for starters.
Quote:By what method of determination do I experience existence separate from your experience;We're attached to different sensory systems in separate locations.
Quote:more to the point, what determined both our particular experiencesMust be a great many things, assuming anything was determined at all.
Quote: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)?IDK, good questions. Perhaps whatever we are -is- transferable...might not even need another human to pull the switcharoo with.
age.
Quote:Why here, why now...why not exist a thousand years from now or a thousand years past?Because your mother and father didn't live a thousand years ago, and won't be alive in a thousand more?
Quote:Can this ever be coherently approached or determined materialistically/scientifically? Or, is metaphysics a fundamental necessity?You;re asking about being, so ofc metaphysics will be necessary, but I doubt that you'll end up with a very accurate statements thereof without reference to the world we live in, or the method by which we generate sound propositions. More of an "and" than an "or".
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