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**Rhizomorph13** · October 21, 2012 at 12:31 pm

Good point Rhythm, some point in the future we might become omniscient beings, but I meant unknowable now with our current toolsets.

Tempus · (This post was last modified: October 23, 2012 at 1:35 am by Tempus.)

(Don't even try. I know the context and it still doesn't make sense.)

~~Edwardo Piet~~ · (This post was last modified: October 24, 2012 at 9:57 am by Edwardo Piet.)

To address the original post, you are you because you can't not be you otherwise you wouldn't be you. That explains the "you" that is your identity.

But, seriously, to explain your existence rather than your identity: you are you because of either a predetermined causal chain or a probabilistically undetermined, but nevertheless ostensibly deterministic, chain of physical, chemical, biological and cultural states of existence.

As for the question "why are there states of existence?", "why is there anything at all"? The answer is: because nonexistence by definition can't exist so there just, logically, has to be something.

YASHA · October 26, 2012 at 11:39 am

(October 12, 2010 at 5:58 pm)R-e-n-n-a-t Wrote: 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.

Any answers or ideas? I've asked my friends and family, but they don't really grasp the concept of the question.

I'm probably misunderstanding so forgive me if I'm wrong but how can you be so sure death is like that. True death is not existing, you wouldn't have the awareness of everything seeming black. Seems like you're stuck in a black box.

blackjack1221 · (This post was last modified: March 6, 2013 at 8:02 pm by blackjack1221.)

You have all missed RENNAT's point! Why am I experiencing my organism's life and not some other organism's life??? e.g. why am I not Queen Elizabeth II or Michael Jordan or....why was I not Adolf Hitler or Abraham Lincoln etc etc?! Seems completely arbitrary!!

(October 24, 2012 at 9:50 am)HalcyonicTrust Wrote: To address the original post, you are you because you can't not be you otherwise you wouldn't be you. That explains the "you" that is your identity.

But, seriously, to explain your existence rather than your identity: you are you because of either a predetermined causal chain or a probabilistically undetermined, but nevertheless ostensibly deterministic, chain of physical, chemical, biological and cultural states of existence.

As for the question "why are there states of existence?", "why is there anything at all"? The answer is: because nonexistence by definition can't exist so there just, logically, has to be something.

really good answer

**Rhizomorph13** · March 6, 2013 at 8:24 pm

Well, gee, thanks for clearing that up for us. Also, you simultaneously necroposted AND godwined this thread. Congratz! AND all in your very first post?! Holy shit! Maybe start with an introduction so we can get to know you first, and vice versa. Smile

Darkstar · (This post was last modified: March 6, 2013 at 9:02 pm by Darkstar.)

This is so rampant I put it in my signiture and still...is there no end?
Although, it isn't as bad now as it was a while ago.

~~Something completely different~~ · March 6, 2013 at 9:13 pm

lol this thread has been silent since before my membership started

**Jackalope** · (This post was last modified: March 6, 2013 at 10:14 pm by Jackalope.)

(March 6, 2013 at 9:01 pm)Darkstar Wrote: This is so rampant I put it in my signiture and still...is there no end?
Although, it isn't as bad now as it was a while ago.

Noobs necropost. Shit happens.

Can't explain that!

Darkstar · March 6, 2013 at 10:55 pm

(March 6, 2013 at 10:13 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Noobs necropost. Shit happens.

Can't explain that!

(March 6, 2013 at 10:13 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Noobs

Explained. Wink

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