RE: Death
March 31, 2012 at 5:40 am
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2012 at 5:44 am by R-e-n-n-a-t.)
(March 26, 2012 at 7:16 am)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: Seven billion individuals simultaneously exist right now, all experiencing consciousness, plus however many billion conscious animals - why am I the consciousness in THIS body, right here, right now, and not any of the others right now or in any time previous? Why aren't I YOU, reading this post, or both of us, or nobody at all? It's all a bit freaky when you start to wrap your head around it but of course there is no real answer.
Ah ha! Someone else gets the 1st person viewpoint conundrum. I tried to explain this to the rest of my class once, but their brains were utterly destroyed by the concept. It is rather tough to explain. It's not so much an explanation of why as of how, however.
This seems to reinforce the notion that time is not a linear progression. Strange...
I shall have to contemplate this for the next fifty years.
