It doesn't matter if you would be oblivious of who "you" are today, in your head that "you" would be much happier and have a better life.
It is saying, "I wish my perspective were with a better being in a better situation then I am right now." — Philosophim
I don't really wish to talk about what it implies because the question is too large and there's a lot of "maybe" to it, since people don't usually cite it in their reasoning. — Judaka
There is no you prior to your birth that could have been something else. — schopenhauer1
The fact is, you are you, and not someone else. — schopenhauer1
"He's a different person" is a turn of phrase, but not literally a different person. — schopenhauer1
So to take a strong stance on continuity over malleability doesn’t fit the facts of human development. It is an odd start to an argument. — apokrisis
Once you are conceived, you could not have been conceived as something else, — schopenhauer1
Once you are conceived, you could not have been conceived as something else — schopenhauer1
The fact is, you are you, and not someone else. — schopenhauer1
So in what sense is this fertilised ovum “you” rather than an undeveloped scrap of protoplasm? — apokrisis
But this alternate life scenario is a false narrative. Rather, there is no "you" that could have become anything else. — schopenhauer1
That's all very internally consistent, but you,ve not tied this entity 'you' to anything which we already agree exists, so there's no compulsion to see what you see. — Isaac
Why not the same insubstantiality, just as it is the same insubstantial I that is not wearing a red shirt but might have? — unenlightened
One case is you born, the counterfactual, would not be you. — schopenhauer1
If 'you' is a sort of personhood waiting in limbo for a body to become available then your argument is wrong. Your position relies entirely on us not conceiving of 'you' in this way, but you've given no reason at all why we shouldn't, only that you personally don't. — Isaac
Yes it would. If the counterfactual were the factual I would be a woman, and the woman would be me, just as the blue shirt would be red if it had been dyed red, even though as it happens it was dyed blue. Is it an argument you are making or just an intuition being declared? Or a universal aversion to counterfactual conditionals? — unenlightened
There is no counterfactual where you were born something else. — schopenhauer1
(The Hunting of the Snark)And what I say three times is true. — The Bellman
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