Why am I me?

Because you cannot yet imagine yourself as being anyone else, from bones to brain.

Suppose at some point I learn that there is a physical me, and a spirit version of me. The spirit version of me chose to be the physical version of me at one point. Now lets say that the physical version of me is once again stripped away, and I am left with the spriritual. The question becomes again, what makes me me? Or will I still be me? If this question is still valid for a spiritual version of me, then where does it stop? This is what scares me, and makes me curious at the same time. Why is my center of consciousness so confined to this person sitting here typing at you, and where does it TRULY end? What do you think it says about the significance of simply existing?

Originally posted by mOjOm

Originally posted by TCMike
Perhaps another question will shed some light on this. If I am me, I know my beingness, my thoughts, my feelings, do other people feel this in their own individuality as well? As if to say, if I could experience being someone else, would I know their point of veiw on self-being? How much would it seem like I was different, or similar to my original self?

-Mike

This is a fun perspective viewpoint idea to play with. The way I understand this is let's say for example: You are you just like normal. Who you've been and are and might become along with memories and everything is all available and undertood like usual. Then let's say you and I decide to swich our self awarness including memories consciousness and everything else. At that point since all memory and self awarness of You is now Me and Mine Yours, would we even be aware that a switch was in fact made?

What about if you exchanged everything excluding your memories? Then surely an exchange would know be evident since a New Present state of Self Awarness would result in a mismatch. Does this mean that we are defined by our Past Interactions within Reality? What we remember that is anyway? It would seem to alter any future ideas of my(new)self as well as my Present Self.

Just a thought anyway.....