I can't wrap my head around this

[Ravenshire]

I was think of this not long ago when My wife made a comment that our kids would be the same people even if we had waited a couple years or had them sooner. I don't think that's the case. I may be way off base but this is the way I figure it. You are you, because of your unique chemical and biological make-up coupled with the fact that you were raised in a unique environment. Your conscious self is tied to your physical self and is, at least in part, dependent on it. You could never have been born earlier or later than you were. You could never have been born to a different set of parents or as an animal.

I think that it's a mental frame of reference that not only divorces the mind from the body, but puts the mind before the body. The body must come first, then it's inseparable mind.

It was a bit of an epiphany for me to completely change the way I had looked at something and see that it made more sense than what I had thought before.