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Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 17:38:09 2020 No.11460078 View Reply Original Report

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By what mechanism am I me and me alone as opposed to another me in the quantum mechanical multiverse?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2020 17:45:15 No.11460097 Report

Quoted By: >>11460123

By what mechanism the current year is 2020 instead of 1439 or 3495?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2020 17:53:48 No.11460123 Report

Quoted By: >>11460169

>>11460097
Expand on your point.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2020 17:56:20 No.11460134 Report

Quoted By: >>11460147

By the same mechanism that you are not me or any other portion of space and and time than the individual you are.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2020 17:59:47 No.11460147 Report

Quoted By: >>11460185

>>11460134
That's a rather round-about way to say "it is what it is *tokes blunt*"

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2020 18:07:36 No.11460169 Report

Quoted By: >>11460203

>>11460123
The "specialness" of your point of view is no different than the apparent specialness of "now". Eventually this moment had to be "now". There's no mechanism for it because all moments in time eventually "get the spotlight". Imagine for the moment that your "point of view" travels through all experiences experienced by anyone anywhere except it "forgets" the memories of an individual it leaves. Each time it would be puzzled why I am this individual rather than somebody else even though it was/is/will be everyone.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2020 18:14:08 No.11460185 Report

Quoted By: >>11460203

>>11460147
The point is that the question was framed to make it sound like there is some necessary mechanism to seperate yourself accross timelines, when the existence of everything as is, with no separate timelines, just seperate space, has the same problem.

So OPs actual question is "why are things in different space in different space?" or really just "what is space?"

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2020 18:21:19 No.11460203 Report

Quoted By: >>11460210 >>11460456

>>11460169
>Imagine for the moment that your "point of view" travels through all experiences experienced by anyone anywhere except it "forgets" the memories of an individual it leaves.
This would have a hope of making sense if there weren't multiple "me's" at the same time.
>>11460185
You may imagine the multitude of universes existing in the same space if it helps you. The question is "Why am I me instead of other "me's" whom apparently exist simultaneously?"

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2020 18:24:58 No.11460210 Report

Quoted By: >>11460214

>>11460203
>This would have a hope of making sense if there weren't multiple "me's" at the same time.
It's a bit like time travel. If you met a future version of yourself, you wouldn't ask why am I the earlier version rather than the later version of me or vice versa.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2020 18:27:11 No.11460214 Report

Quoted By: >>11460464

>>11460210
This is another "it is what it is," answer. Comparing to something else you also perceive not to have a mechanism is not an answer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2020 20:03:16 No.11460456 Report

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>>11460203
And I ask you again, why are you not me?

Seperate version of you in a higher dimensional space are just other people in a different space that you can be sure are almost exactly like you, but are not you. There is as much reason for you to be any one of yourselves in parallel universes as there is for you to be me or anyone else anywhere.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2020 20:05:23 No.11460464 Report

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>>11460214
But you would need to answer why seperate things are seperate at all if you have any hope of answering why you are seperate from other timelines. Also, its the same answer, because its fundementally the same question: how can space exist as it does?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 11 Mar 2020 20:23:22 No.11460516 Report

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I have thought about this a lot, and so far as I can tell, this question is unanswerable. What does that say about reality? That's also unanswerable.

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