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 Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:46 am
Well if I was born with another sperm and somehow came out mentally retarded, then the me that's typing this wouldn't be typing... I guess it depends because sometimes out image causes us to have different lives. For example, if I was acutally pretty and popular then I wouldn't be really that cynical about things. If I was a bit not as good looking, then I would probably have been bullied and have gotten used to it or something else. Eh... I don't know.
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 4:41 pm
I believe we would exist still.
We wouldn't look the same but we would still be on living.
Our likes, dislikes, personalities may change a little because of the different life styles we might havee grown up in.
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:53 am
Hmmm...
I think that a person is defined by experience. There is no mysterious "You" essence that magically exists somewhere. You have to earn it... be that through experience or whatever and that then creates who you are.
Therefore, depending on how different the experiences are, a different person has been created.
Here's a thought: What if this has allready happened and the "You" that you think you are is supposed to be someone else? Are you still who you think you are?
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:07 pm
Well, if laws hadn't been passed legalizing mixed-race marriages, my grandparents never would have gotten married, my dad never would have existed, and I would not have been born.
So I guess you could say that I literally owe my life to the government. O_o
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:47 pm
If I was born into a different life then it would highly depend on my genetics. What if I was sickly? Handicapped? Average intelligence? High Intelligence?
I think it would depend from there as to what trials I'll most likely face in the future. My family situation and health would drastically change my views on the world today since those facts are the kind that influence me throughout life. However even if I was raised differently...over achiever, under achiever, spoiled, neglected, etc... I would still have the same inner questions about the universe I have now. I would still want to know everything there is because that is just who I am. But if you choose to discard the idea of a soul, then yes...I would be a completely different person.
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:43 pm
I believe that if circumstances changed, we truthfully wouldn't exist, since we're all our own person. No two people are exactly the same, so it must be the same with your existance, no two existances could be the same.
I also believe that after you die, you'll never be able to see the light of day again, your existance wouldn't be passed on in the future, such as it is with "past lives," instead, you would just lie immobile, never to see what the future had in store.
Though, this thought depresses me, so I try not to think about it sweatdrop
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 3:36 pm
You'd probably exist sooner or later, if that were to happen.
I don't feel like going into detail, as of the moment.
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:33 pm
I believe my soul would exist within a different body, but everything else (the looks, the emotions, the conscious thoughts and opinions, possibly even the time period) would probably be different . . . yet inherently stemmed from the same source.
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Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 8:18 pm
No, because it wouldn't be me. The sperm would have a different set of genes. It's sort of like saying your sibling is you. When obviously you are two different people. (genes)
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:59 pm
I think that everything would be different, but perhaps I might still exist as a different person. Fate is interesting.. :3
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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:22 pm
Butterfly effect, in essence. Small variations of the initial condition of a nonlinear dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system.
If Liam O'Flannery (completely fictitious character, by the way) stooped down and picked a blade of grass on a mid-July night back in Ireland in 1374, a few dozen people might not exist today and rather another dozen might in their place. Who knows? The world might even be under the complete rule of a totalitarian dictator. Every event has the potential to affect everything that proceeds it.
And I'm obviously knocking the concept of the "soul."
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 5:56 pm
It feels so weird to think that such a change could change my whole being.
No, I don't believe I would "exist" if a different sperm cell or egg cell were used for "my birth." Technically, "I" would still be born, but "I" wouldn't be who I am today, but a slightly different person, if not completely.
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 12:01 pm
I doubt we can know the answer to your question because we haven't experimented anything like that, but I strongly doubt that under different circumstances there would be an exact way to recreate the same exact being with the same exact DNA, because a different situation would also imply that there would possibly be different parents or different time. The probabilities that I would be here would be almost inexistent.
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 6:47 pm
Daetyrnis This can be down to if a different sperm cell fertilized the egg, or vice versa. Would you exist? Would you be a conscious within a different body, or would you never participate in existence?
Lets say half the soul comes from the sperm and half from the egg.
And when the two unite it becomes one soul.
BUT! Now lets say the egg that IS YOU, got fertilized by a different sperm. How different would you be from yourself, is the question.
Oddly enough the answer is 100%.
It's also 100% if a different egg was fertilized by the sperm that made you.
Look at monozygotic twins, aka "identical twins".
They started out as one egg and one sperm.
Then when the zygote formed, through a random chemical reaction in the egg... the egg divided.. sending an exact copy of both sets of DNA, fraternal and paternal into a daughter zygote.
Now you have two genetially identical twins, but who have different souls.
Very different souls.
Neither one of them partakes in the reality of the other.
Neither one of them is half aware of the others mind.
Interesting, huh!
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 2:26 pm
I think we'd still exist except what we looked like would be altered. Plus maybe what we're good at doing or our interests. Hopefully is would be dramatically different, but you wouldn't know unless someone actually did an experiment like that. sweatdrop
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