Why am I the only one who sees the world as I see it? Why do I feel like the only unique person in the world and everyone else is just the same?
2007-03-26 00:22:54 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
You are you because what you are is a unique harmony of energy, thoughts, and experiences. You live in two universes. That of your own mind reflecting what you see and believe the Universe (and life) to be. And the other, the universe of a greater consciousness that is objective and exists beyond the limits of your awareness.
As for everyone else seeming to be the same.... That has to do with the limits of your own awareness about the uniqueness of each of those other individual universes that exists within the minds of those others.
****
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages."
--William Shakespeare, From As You Like It (II, vii, 139-143)
2007-03-26 03:20:58 · answer #1 · answered by Shaman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's because we are all "egocentric"--each person is literally the center of his/her own universe. Although you are directly aware of your own thoughts, feelings and other experiences, you can never directly know any other person's experiences. As far as you will ever be able to determine, no one else on earth will seem to have exactly the same thoughts, feelings, opinions, preferences, etc., as you yourself do--which easily leads you to view yourself as being totally unique. And this is true of every human being, not just you.
Consequently, because we are so intimately and directly aware of our own thoughts and feelings, it is easy for each one of us to feel quite unique, while other people seem to us to be largely similar to one another, or perhaps to fall into a few broad categories of "types of people." Every single one of us is "self-centered" in this manner, and until someone comes up with a way to connect brains together (enabling us to directly share experiences), that's how it will remain.
2007-03-26 09:32:04 · answer #2 · answered by clicksqueek 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lets put it this way.
the word "see" means "how you perceive things". which means it totally depends on the word "HOW" which has no definitive answer.
Imagine your consciousness or thought is a massive intelligent self adapating and learning processsing machine of information. and the whole world is stuffed with info's
"the sky is dark" and your consciousness process it through your childhood experience of lightning struck maybe, which results on your fear of dark skies, while other may tie that event with their first kiss under the rain, which results in people who find dark skies romantic.
simply our conciousness have billions of variables to process all those information through, and even if some people have some common variables, the priorities of those variables may varies resulting in an almost unlimited combination of perception. therefore we perceive differently.
and why do we feel like we're the only unique person and others aren't it's because we may not be able to explain our variable in our conciousness, but we can feel it for ourself which results in our sense of identity. but we dont understand
the variables of others. that's why we perceive them all as the same, the same as uncomprehensible as the others
2007-03-26 07:50:10 · answer #3 · answered by @lun 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cos you are looking through your eyes and cannot help but observe the world through your own 5 senses. It is all you have to know the world beyond your body but it is still filtered through the lens of your experiences. Empathy is the capacity to feel and experience the world through another's perceptions yet empathy is almost impossible to sustain for any longer than brief periods of time. We always come back to our view and our relativity. If we can never understand or relate to another's reality it just means that our empathy monitor is low.
2007-03-26 07:56:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could be said that 'I' and 'me' are synonyms. Whether you feel that you are unique is open to discussion. We are all similar in many ways.
2007-03-26 07:53:45 · answer #5 · answered by plwimsett 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our choices and reason make us who we are - so in effect you created you and thats the reason you are who you are because you choose to be - simple.
2007-03-26 08:33:20 · answer #6 · answered by kissaled 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cause and effect. your here to imply changes on others.
2007-03-26 07:33:07 · answer #7 · answered by Special-k 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because i am me.
everyone feels they are unique
2007-03-26 07:48:23 · answer #8 · answered by pavi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wish I could be you . !
So , I could be me . . !
. . .
2007-03-26 07:38:25 · answer #9 · answered by In_Ze_Baba 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋