Quote:I still don't get it. Are you saying because they are different molecules and atoms, though formed in the exact same way, are seperate entities with individual identity and consciousness? So if self-reflection is key to self-awareness and the product or self-reflection is exactly the same as another, the identities are still seperate becaus the origins of matter are different?
If you have two of something (no matter how atomically similar or whatever), then each of those things are different. If only because they are in different places and made of different matter. Simply: if there was no difference then there would be only one thing, and they would not be distinguishable from one another because they are the same thing.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
