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If they had gotten heads, you won't exist. :)
by segmondy 10y ago
If they had gotten heads, you won't exist. :)
- xyzzy4 10y agoHis/her consciousness might exist inside a different person though.
- mabbo 10y agoNo, I pretty definitely wouldn't exist. My father's family has been in Canada a lot longer, and I'm half him.
- xyzzy4 10y agoOk but maybe your father or mother would've had a baby with someone else, and then you'd be that person.
- samangan 10y agoYou are your 'current' feelings and your past memories. The reason for the downvotes is that from your logic mabbo is every person who has ever existed in the history of the human species. Since every person has their own current feelings and past memories, saying mabbo would have been that person instead is a little meaningless.
- Namrog84 10y agoI'm not even the same person as who i was yesterday. Everytime my stream of consciousness stops and starts I am a new person built from the thousands of lives that came before. This is not a saddening fact but an enlightening one. We all stand on the shoulders of those that came before us.
- Fjolsvith 10y agoI thought we stood on their heads...
- xenihn 10y agoI don't understand how people can adopt this line of reasoning, can you explain? Do you think that there's a store of consciousnesses somewhere, and they're reserved/assigned?
- jonnathanson 10y agoThey're actually unassigned, but you can pay $35 to reserve one. It's like Southwest Airlines.
- taneq 10y agoWhat do you think a consciousness is?
- hanoz 10y agoGiven the butterfly effect, if they'd used a different coin and got tails, he wouldn't exist either.
- HappyTypist 10y agoI wonder how signicant the butterfly effect is in most cases. Most human systems are set up to allow a wide range of flexibility and still work - eg you can show up for a coffee meeting 1 minute late, and still finish on time and everything.
- epalmer 10y agoBut he wouldn't know he doesn't exist.