2009/12/3 soulcatcher☠ <soulcatche...@gmail.com>: > Hi all, > every time I read about the anthropic reasoning in physics I can't > help asking the more general question: > "Why I am I, not somebody else?" > Why I see through _this_ eyes, am confined to _this_ brain, was born > in _this_ year, etc? > This question seems to me of the same importance as the question "why > we live in _this_ universe, with _this_ physical laws?". Moreover, I > have a deep feeling that both questions ultimately should have the > same answer - I really don't see a difference between "why my universe > is this, not that" and "why me body/brain is this, not that" questions > ... > So. what do you think - why you is _you_, not me or Elvis Presley or whatever?
If you were Elvis and Elvis were you, what difference would that make to anything? -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
