RE: Sort of a complicated question, I'll try to ask. Why was I born me and not another?
October 12, 2016 at 5:59 pm
(October 12, 2016 at 5:52 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: The key here is the trajectory of "me" based on the accumulation of experiences both objective and subjective, conscious and unconscious.
If you had different experiences or made different choices, you would be experiencing a different self identity.
Which is basically just saying, "If you weren't you, you would be someone else."
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell