what makes you "you"?

Question

how are you "you" and not any one of billions of other people? how is it that each of us is born as "us" and not someone else? does anyone else find this as astonishingly bizarre as I do? I don't know exactly what I'm trying to say.. but just think about it. In all the generations in all of human history out of all the possibilities you ended up as you and not someone else (or something else). is this predestined do you believe or mere chance? it just seems... odd... to be this way. for example, why aren't we everybody else as well as ourselves? are we every single one of our body cells and if so why don't we feel like we've died when we cut our hair, etc? could go on and on but maybe someone can give me a little insight on this. or at least an opinion?

Answer 1

I am me. An individual, a culmination of my life experiences, my heredity, my hopes, my dreams, my fears. Everything that I have done and everything I hope to do. Everything that I am and everything I hope to be. I am me. I like being me. I wouldn’t want to be any one else but me!

Answer 2

I don't quite see how you think there is anything astonishing in the fact that you are you and not different. If you were any different you would still be you, it's just that what defines "you" would be slightly different. And, you wouldn't be aware of the fact that you could be any different. Each individual is the result of their unique DNA makeup which is the result of mathmatical probabilities that allow for billions of combinations to coexist that are all unique and the result of our life experiences which are fairly easy to imagine as unique. Since nobody can have the exact same genetics (save clones/twins) and because nobody can have the exact same life experiences since it is impossible for two bodies to occupy the same time and space, everyone will be unique. Now, many of these resulting differences may be immaterial or minute, but they exist nonetheless.
We aren't everyone else as well as ourselves because you can only be one person because we have defines a person as the resulting personality that springs forth from a unique genome and past.
We don't feel like we are dying when we get our hair cut because hair has no nerve endings or brain cells. If you are asking what is the location of the "us" in our body, nobody really knows for sure, but it is certainly within the brain. Lose part of your brain and it will change who you are.
Of course, there are theories of personality that posit that there are no such things as long-term personalities and that the feeling of continuity of self is a self-delusion.

Answer 3

What makes me "me" ....

Long red hair.
A wild and irreverent sense of humor.
An accent that is half Kentucky hills and half Manhattan skyscrapers.
Taoism.
Chanel No. 5.
A crazy sable shih tzu named Bailey.
A son with the same irreverent sense of humor.
The ability to write.
The love of baseball.
A vast knowledge of the history of art.
5 years of college.
Turkey Hill Party Cake ice cream.
Lavender Roses
Exotic teas in bone china tea cups.
A brilliant but misguided conservative father as a foible to debate.
And a healthy dose of my maternal grandmother and maternal uncle who were both journalists and put the ink in my veins.

That just begins to cover it. Pax - C

Answer 4

I am me; thus, I am not you nor anyone else. Nonetheless, I am intimately connected to you as a river that runs through a valley is connected to the ecosystems it nourishes or destroys, as the case might be.

Answer 5

Try looking into nature. Does a tree look similar to another?
Does one horse look like another? Each and everything living is different.

Answer 6

The same reason that billions of other people are "you'' to each one of them.

Answer 7

i used to think about that kind of stuff when i was 4. i never could figure it out so i lost interest. it's very confusing.

Answer 8

My dreams are "unique".

Answer 9

i am me...simply being myself..