(October 12, 2010 at 5:58 pm)R-e-n-n-a-t Wrote: Being conscious individually, as I assume everyone else is, the question comes to mind; why do I exist from a 1st person point of view?The answer to "why" depends on perspective, as does all truth.
Biologically, you are not just you, but trillions of microbs & other lives that are living off of you. They have points of views to, albeit very different from that of the overall "you."
Since you are asking specifically about "1st person point of view" - that implies either mental perspective or spiritual perspective. Neither are clearly answered... Mentally, it depends on whether you are looking at brain activity, or from your own perception from your thinking brain. Spiritually, well - that depends on how you interpret unseen but influential energy.
Quote:Obviously I couldn't exist from a 3rd person POVHow do you know that you couldn't?
Some have reason to believe (ie NDEs) that upon death, one is able to see multiple perspectives that one couldn't see in life. IE: In one impression, one could understand past, present & future & related feelings & actions as well as potential.
If you would like to explore more bizarre possibilities, read some of what Leibniz wrote... IE: "Now this interconnection, relationship, or this adaptation of all things to each particular one, and of each one to all the rest, brings it about tha tevery simple substance has relations which express all teh others and that it is consequently a perpetual living mirror of the universe."
Quote:, but when I die it'll seem to me as if the world ends; MY world will end. How can I explain this... When you sleep without dreaming everything is nonremembered, and seems 'black'. If death is the same, then it'll be lights out for eternity, and therefore I'm wondering why I'm conscious to begin with. Why me? Why here? Why now? Why at all? etc.Why would you compare death with sleep - since death is when your brain is no longer working, yet sleep, your brain is still active?
I'm not 100% sure what you are asking, but my guess is that you are wondering what the point in being individually conscious - why of all of the possible consciouses - you are you - & why all of that when it is destined to end?
It is a mystery for each to discover personally.
Yet generally, it can be noted that energy tends to be attracted to certain energy, in a cyclical way.
