What make us unique?

Discussion in 'General Philosophy' started by Semon, Jan 9, 2006.

  1. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    You sure are not me!
     
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  3. Cyperium I'm always me Valued Senior Member

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    Quantum entanglement sorta proves this, when they teleported a photon the original self-destroyed.

    http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Harrison/QuantTeleport/QuantTeleport.html - Read the sections "The Teleporter" and "The Original State of the Teleported Photon Must Be Destroyed".

    I'm sure you can find more information on this.

    The principle used in that is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, allthough it looks like the principle "look the same = be the same" are just using the uncertainty principle - or they are a part of the same principle, thus the uncertainty principle may be a "tool" to make sure everything really is unique.
     
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  5. hug-a-tree Live the life Registered Senior Member

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    I think that every single person is different. No two people are alike. I mean, that's just not possible. I wouldn't say that everyones unique though...
    What makes someone unique? I think it's when they stand out from others.
     
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  7. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    Consciousness makes us unique. Our consciousness resides in our brain and our brain resides in our body. Probably the first thing babies are conscious of is their body.

    Your consciousness is inextricably tied to that particular lump of protoplasm, not to anybody else's lump of protoplasm. Your consciousness can make those particular hands and feet move, not anybody else's hands and feet. Your consciousness can make language come out of that particular mouth, not anybody else's mouth. Your consciousness interprets the light signals that come through those particular eyes and the sound signals through those particular ears.

    These are things that the youngest child, one with the least grasp of philosophy, already knows. Other activities of the consciousness, more abstract ones like contemplating, planning, appreciating, have a much more tenuous link to your physical body. But the basic sensual inputs make your consciousness obviously tied to a particular body and establish your sense of uniqueness. It's one of the first things, if not THE first thing, that you learn.
     
  8. Cyperium I'm always me Valued Senior Member

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    Too optimistic, rather we are overwhelmed with a feeling that we are all alone and with no meaning. Reality can be REALLY scary, everything with constant shapes and forms, light, the end of the road. It's IT. Sleeping to forget, no escape.

    Then come the oppertunities, love, feeling of having meaning. But first we have to face it naked and alone.
     
  9. Soapy Registered Member

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    We are all unique, as in each one of us is slightly different from the next. Like a fingerprint, a million different variations but still overwhelmingly a fingerprint.
     
  10. EmptyForceOfChi Banned Banned

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    abstract thought,
    consciouusness,
    awareness,

    but really we are not unique we are but the same.


    peace.
     
  11. JoeTheMan Registered Senior Member

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    Spectrum's right. It's our conscious experience which is internal and unique. Our external behavior, appearances and utterances might be conformist, repetitive and similar--almost to the point of being identical--yet our consciousness is wholly unique, singular, and only our own. Experience is the source of uniqueness!
     

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