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How much of a person can you change before they're no longer the same person? How much of you could hypothetically be different before you're no longer you?
If you had been born into a different financial situation, a different family, different ethnicity, different country, how much of you could you really recognise? Even if you were genetically identical to as you are now, if you experienced an even slightly different upbringing, how similar could you argue that you'd really be? How different can you be while still being "you"?
As people, we are the product of both nature and nurture. Our genes and our environment. We take our memories and our bodies and our personality as proof of an "I", when really this "I" that has formed is a result of things playing out just as they have up to this very moment in one long chain of cause and effect. If there are parallel universes, how would the "you" there be you at all? If their genes or upbringing was even slightly different, perhaps by even one event, they wouldn't be the same as you anymore would they?
And if this is the case, what sort of unchanging, permanent you could there be at all? As even minutely different subjective experience can cause people to differ so greatly, what remains?
Only that which has experienced.
How much of a person can you change before they're no longer the same person? How much of you could hypothetically be different before you're no longer you?
If you had been born into a different financial situation, a different family, different ethnicity, different country, how much of you could you really recognise? Even if you were genetically identical to as you are now, if you experienced an even slightly different upbringing, how similar could you argue that you'd really be? How different can you be while still being "you"?
As people, we are the product of both nature and nurture. Our genes and our environment. We take our memories and our bodies and our personality as proof of an "I", when really this "I" that has formed is a result of things playing out just as they have up to this very moment in one long chain of cause and effect. If there are parallel universes, how would the "you" there be you at all? If their genes or upbringing was even slightly different, perhaps by even one event, they wouldn't be the same as you anymore would they?
And if this is the case, what sort of unchanging, permanent you could there be at all? As even minutely different subjective experience can cause people to differ so greatly, what remains?
Only that which has experienced.
Thanks to my grandpa, I was able to enjoy this masterpiece of surpressed sexual tension between Bodhi and Johnny 🥹😮💨
Bodhi & Johnny feat. any reason to put hands on each other
(a.k.a. was it really necessary for some of those touches to linger that long?)