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One of the thing that i was trying to understand for years is who am i. Where does my want come from
obviously we feel obvious that this is my want.
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What part of my body is me. How physical world which act on principle create like something me. I know
i feel the world but how i know another person also feel things because you don't really have any proof
to differentiate that another person in front you actually feels or just like a intelligent computer
doing things that look like it feel things.
Or opposite is true everything around you feel things according to it's constituents in that view
everything have their own consciousness. Does electron proton also have it's consciousness with it's own
definition of consciousness. How about your cell, does they have it?
Though tomorrow i had exam a thought came into my mind in the morning that what if the whole human race
has its own consciousness where we are just acting like the cells in our body. Think about it different
group of people doing different things to complete our society. There is no one man creating the whole
society. it's a fully functional society when each do carry their job. Society doesn't fall if one
person dies. Does society have consciousness in its own dimensions?
I don't know whether society have consciousness but it really give some insight how my consciousness
could form. It's not one cell that are you. it's you when all cell work together as whole. It's not so
matter if one cell dies. Or does it?
Because there is an philosophical questions if i took all your cell one by one and replace accordingly
with another would you be still you?
If the answer is yes then what is death and what is birth. Let's take you dead but by some complex
machine i record all you neuron connection with some degree precision (high precision like atomic level
probably unnecessary cause you even change a lot even in day lots of things change in your brain even a
single as your are continuing throughout the day so we can make at least this much error). So we keeping
functional level accuracy. Then we construct new one in future will it be you just like you fall deep
sleep and get up. if you think it will be you then what happens if creating a another in front of you.
And if the answer was no then you need to look at biology for a while everyday you eat food those
molecules has been suck by your body transferred into your brain so you continuously changing. The
person who i was 10 years ago almost totally a different person.
So you can see how hard it getting to define ourselves. I am not sure probably the reason may be we are
trying to make connections between our subjective view with objective view. Here by subjective view i
refer feeling self, i, mine this type of unitary self feeling. And objective view everything is cause
and effect particle interacting so everything is happening including me like ball falling due to gravity.
Or maybe consciousness is something objectively irreducible property. Surely it stems from matter but
when matter comes together in a certain way it totally different property then any of its constituents.
Or may be we actually we don't know the atoms in the first place or fundamental particle in first place.
Think about it we only know how atoms behave by putting into experiment which just reveals how particle
interacted with our experiment in a measurable length. I like the way Werner Heisenberg put it, "What we
observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning".
And that's the truth we will never know what reality really is only thing we know is the experience from
that reality. If you think this deeply our science is nothing more than just pattern from our past
experiences just the best model to fit our past experiences.
And one thing probably should mention first that if you thinking that you are something immaterial which
some kind of spooky i highly recommend you to watch at least last part of this video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lmI7NnMqwLQ