i still can't get my head around it. it's bizzare, even animals are self concious. my dog has dreams and nightmares which tells me she has imagination, which is part of a creative self concious. do you spin out at life like me. or are you so distracted that you haven't even noticed that this is all damn weird!
2007-04-12 05:47:07 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
yeah, i try not to think about it. it gives me anxiety! lol.
2007-04-12 05:49:17 · answer #1 · answered by Ultimate Guitar Hero! 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I understand.
When I was a child, I had a problem when I was playing with my friends, especially it it was with a ball.
When I would catch it I would go into a whole inner dialogue trying to understand why the Universe was created and why I was the one catching that ball and not someone else, and why did we exist as a "self". (yeah quiet boring to play with me I suppose, until I snapped out of such reveries lol)
Now, I believe it is a cosmic accident, but a nice accident by the way. I think we will never have the real answer to this anyway, but this is ok too. It can be strange, but so fascinating and beautiful!
2007-04-12 05:56:58 · answer #2 · answered by Flyinghorse 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, yes, it is strange that we're in the exact spot in our solar system for life to flourish and evolve. This just makes the mystery all the more intruiguing. Are we some celestial hiccup? it seems too random for chance to be a satisfactory answer, though I doubt there's some benign intelligence that nurtured our existence. However, given the size of the universe, and how minute we are in it, i'd imagine there are other beings posing similar questions millions of light years away.
2007-04-12 07:20:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I remember being in primary school (about grade 2 so I would have been 6 years old) thinking why am I me? How did I become me? What happened that made me, me and what if I had become someone else?
Every now and then I still have the same thoughts going through my head but I still havent found the answer and Im 33 now LOL
2007-04-12 05:52:16 · answer #4 · answered by ♥Kazz♥ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think about all the time. I think about a lot of weird things though.
When I am driving down the road and look at the people in the car beside me I wonder how they are living a separate life that i have nothing to do with. If I die they wouldn't know. It shows I am alone or it shows that I am not. Very CONFUSING
2007-04-12 12:22:18 · answer #5 · answered by matrix 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I prefer to believe that this body is a cocoon for the soul, and that we are in this cocoon to learn a spiritual awakening so that our learning can continue on in another form when the body dies. However, I also believe that any explanation of this existance is equivelant to a kindergartener trying to explain astrophysics. The single thing that proves this theory, in my opinion, is the existance of natural instinct. This had to be learned before we got this body, and indicates to me that there is some process of maturing involving our intelligence that is beyond our existence in this body.
2007-04-12 06:05:22 · answer #6 · answered by Jimbo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even though this is a philosophy section, if you look at the basic chemistry of the Universe down to the atomic level, life, even intelligent life, is inevitable.
Humans are not really that complicated. We only seem complicated because we are basically stupid.
2007-04-12 05:59:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since we were created including animals I don't its weird. What is weird is that we grow old and die and yet even at an old age we do not want to die and feel we have not lived long enough. Now that's weird!
2007-04-12 05:51:55 · answer #8 · answered by . 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sure is! Even how the Earth became what it is, has also got me thinking. We all have a brain, heart, lungs, breath the same air....yet we all can't seem to all live together on the same planet without trying to destroy one another. Blows my mind!
2007-04-12 05:51:52 · answer #9 · answered by LARGE MARGE 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I noticed. I spend a lot of time thinking about how we came to be, and how we developed reasoning, and, how man, a species of nature, managed to create all the technology existing today.
2007-04-12 05:50:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I never stop being amazed at how we evolved into humans. I am a biologist, and I still can't believe that we did it. But I'm not so sure it is a good thing. Look at what we are doing to our environment. Its sad really.
2007-04-12 05:51:12 · answer #11 · answered by Should be Working! 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋