@quip I didn't reply to your reply since it was a mess and I couldn't edit it properly since I'm on the phone :p
Anyway. You can't just say "a deity must come up at some point" without any evidence. I strongly dislike that because we've heard it several times and none who claim such things have succeeded in convincing me or anyone else here in AF as to why a deity must be and none of them got evidence. You must understand that our lack of knowledge is not evidence for a deity. If I'm wrong, tell me why. Even if we can never answer this question it still isn't evidence for a deity because we are simply humans and our knowledge is limited.
What I think is happening here is, since you're human, your brain tries to find patterns and make sense of random data. the random data being something along individuals and consciousness. There's even a word for that, Apophenia.
And yes I've had the thought about why I am me and not him/her the longer I thought about it the less sense it made. It was like one of those moments where you repeat a word several times and it loses its meaning :p
Anyway. You can't just say "a deity must come up at some point" without any evidence. I strongly dislike that because we've heard it several times and none who claim such things have succeeded in convincing me or anyone else here in AF as to why a deity must be and none of them got evidence. You must understand that our lack of knowledge is not evidence for a deity. If I'm wrong, tell me why. Even if we can never answer this question it still isn't evidence for a deity because we are simply humans and our knowledge is limited.
What I think is happening here is, since you're human, your brain tries to find patterns and make sense of random data. the random data being something along individuals and consciousness. There's even a word for that, Apophenia.
And yes I've had the thought about why I am me and not him/her the longer I thought about it the less sense it made. It was like one of those moments where you repeat a word several times and it loses its meaning :p