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Re:Gorgeous Photos Capture Life Inside a Drop of Seawater by icambron on Thursday January 19, 2023 @11:29AM (#34442105)
To elaborate this point a bit: the "lottery" concept requires you to believe there's like a queue of souls and they each get allocated to different bodies, and you're lucky you got a fancy one instead of a microscopic shrimp. A different -- and to me, more plausible -- way to look at it is that "you" are an emergent property of a specific complex organism. How you actually emerge is a fascinating and difficult discussion, but putting aside the mechanics, the implication of this framing is that "you could have been a microscopic shrimp" is meaningless, like asking "what if that cloud were instead a bowl of soup?"
Re:Gorgeous Photos Capture Life Inside a Drop of Seawater by enw on Thursday January 19, 2023 @12:00PM (#34442610)
What would be the “me” if I were to clone myself 1:1? Would there be two “me”s? Or a the same old “me”, a single consciousness but two bodies?
Re:Gorgeous Photos Capture Life Inside a Drop of Seawater by siwatanejo on Thursday January 19, 2023 @12:05PM (#34442688)
Two consciousnesses with the same origin. What's wrong with that?
Re:Gorgeous Photos Capture Life Inside a Drop of Seawater by quchen on Thursday January 19, 2023 @03:57PM (#34445505)
The philosophical zombie might be an interesting rabbit hole for you! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
Re:Gorgeous Photos Capture Life Inside a Drop of Seawater by hugs_vs_toph on Thursday January 19, 2023 @12:06PM (#34442694)
That problem used to mindfuck me. Eventually I realized it's more of an emergent problem, that only exists in our brains. Problem goes away by taking a step back and viewing the world from a perspective greater than self.
Re:Gorgeous Photos Capture Life Inside a Drop of Seawater by officeplant on Thursday January 19, 2023 @05:13PM (#34446410)
I'm gonna be reborn as microplastics and live eternally.