There is no "I" in "You"

[Edwardo Piet]

I really appreciate Jor's take on this.

[Excited Penguin]

Can anyone answer why you're you.....and not me?

By what method of determination do I experience existence separate from your experience; more to the point, what determined both our particular experiences and could one have been shunt in place of another (by what alternate means could I have experienced existence through your perspective or vice versa)?

Why here, why now...why not exist a thousand years from now or a thousand years past?

Can this ever be coherently approached or determined materialistically/scientifically? Or, is metaphysics a fundamental necessity?

Metaphysics.

EP

[The Grand Nudger]

@Gem

I won't blow smoke up your ass by telling you I was familiar with Priest beforehand, lol, but even the most cursory glance at his wiki entry (and particularly the referenced articles he's authored and reviews of his work) firmly establish his credentials as a syncretist.

Not that this should be taken, in any way, as a refutation of the value you find in those works. It's just a descriptor. More skeptical than what, though, and by reference to what standard?

[Pat Mustard]

I know why you set up this thread, you thought you had a knock down argument and as soon as we heard it we'd fall down in supplication hailing the Buddha as our true lord & master. When that failed to happen, you first tried to deny your purpose (well, I'm just askjng questions) and then got aggressive because we don't accept your unsupported beliefs. As the saying goes, I've got you taped.

And I've got you thinking....planting seeds was my divine plan.  ...and I would've gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you pesky trolls!  

if you genuinely think I'm trolling there's the report button. I'm sure a mod will replybto you politely.

But you're not calling me a troll because you think I'm one. You just want an excuse to ignore my post because you've no answer to it, and its accuracy has been amply demonstrated by your actions in this thread.

[Ben Davis]

No it doesn't. I'm not attempting to ascertain or refute the existence of the self.

Sorry? No, what doesn't what? I think you've missed my point again. I'll restate for clarity:

I am me and not anyone else because I am the qualia of a single brain. I could not have been born in another time because my brain only exists in the temporal 'now' and not at any other point in existence.

[Little Rik]

Can anyone answer why you're you.....and not me?

By what method of determination do I experience existence separate from your experience; more to the point, what determined both our particular experiences and could one have been shunt in place of another (by what alternate means could I have experienced existence through your perspective or vice versa)?

Why here, why now...why not exist a thousand years from now or a thousand years past?

Can this ever be coherently approached or determined materialistically/scientifically? Or, is metaphysics a fundamental necessity?

Quip.  

Yoga answer these questions very very easily.  

The moon is one but if you see the moon reflected on a lake you may and will see a myriad of moons
according to the position in which you are.
Every different positions around the lake offer the vision of the moon so we may have millions of moon but as we know the moon is only one.
Similarly there are a myriads of lives in the universe but the one who produce a reflection on this universe is only one and that is .......guess who?
I am NOT saying who he-she is because people here would ask me for evidence.
Capisci?  

[LadyForCamus]

DAMNIT

[Ben Davis]

...my brain...

Additional: Is it 'my brain' or am I a brain's 'person'? I think the latter is a reasonable interpretation of the current evidence.

[The Grand Nudger]

The moon is one but if you see the moon reflected on a lake you may and will see a myriad of moons
according to the position in which you are.
Every different positions around the lake offer the vision of the moon so we may have millions of moon but as we know the moon is only one.
Similarly there are a myriads of lives in the universe but the one who produce a reflection on this universe is only one and that is .......guess who?
I am NOT saying who he-she is because people here would ask me for evidence.
Capisci?  

The ease with which yoga answers questions seems directly proportional to the idiocy of the answers.

[Whateverist]

The moon is one but if you see the moon reflected on a lake you may and will see a myriad of moons
according to the position in which you are.
Every different positions around the lake offer the vision of the moon so we may have millions of moon but as we know the moon is only one.
Similarly there are a myriads of lives in the universe but the one who produce a reflection on this universe is only one and that is .......guess who?
I am NOT saying who he-she is because people here would ask me for evidence.
Capisci?  

The ease with which yoga answers questions seems directly proportional to the idiocy of the answers.

Indubitably.