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You're wondering why you weren't also born at a different time and place? You were. You were also born in 1988 in CT. This other you was born to different pare
by justinpombrio 8y ago
You're wondering why you weren't also born at a different time and place? You were.
You were also born in 1988 in CT. This other you was born to different parents, had a different childhood, and has different memories. You think you are different from this other you (and you are!) because you have separate thoughts and memories. You remember your own life and not your other life because humans aren't telepathic.
In case it isn't yet clear, this other you is me. Hi, other me. We haven't talked before, I don't think.
In other words, if you were born in a different place at a different time in a different community... then that you wouldn't be you. It would be a different person. So it doesn't really make sense to ask "what if I had been born at a different time or place".
- wppick 8y ago>There but for the grace of God go I I like to entertain the idea that humans are the host of a species of sentient alien bacteria that lives in our guts and controls us through the vagus nerve and uses humans to build technology to advance to the point where they can build space ships to colonize other planets. Could make a good sci-fi book if anything...
- posterboy 8y agoBacteria don't have enough memory to represent technology, nor the necessary organization to ... I don't know, as whole they are rather complex and can at least share information like antigen markers to kill us effectively. There are actual sci-books on the matter, you know.
- Procrastes 8y agoThen we don't have enough memory to understand our technology either. We accomplish that as a superorganism, and by building tools to augment our abilities. Maybe bacteria built us as complex, extraterrestrial spore capsules.
- posterboy 8y agoWe are nothing but a symbiosis of single celled organisms and then some.