Why am I me, instead of someone else? • r/philosophy
Even as a little kid, I thought about why I'm seeing through this perspective instead of the other person.
I could be overthinking this, but to me is one of the biggest mysteries.
We're all a bunch of humans, some of us smarter than others, all products of our own experience. All of us are concsious and can only experience the consciousness of ourself. Looking at it this way, why am I me, instead of someone else? There isn't any reason to it as far as I can tell, why am "I" inhabiting this brain, this body, this time period. You might say I could have easily have been someone else, but then, why not another person...... or another yet? Could I have been an ant, and not even known I was an "I"? Is that possible?
Basically, how is this me inside this seemingly random family tree of the human species? If we're just products of the universe, how are we each ourselves? Makes me feel like I don't exist.
Even as a little kid, I thought about why I'm seeing through this perspective instead of the other person.
I could be overthinking this, but to me is one of the biggest mysteries.