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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Existence and experience have an identity, a temporality, and a location to them. Why do you experience "you", "now" and "your surroundings"? Because that's "who you are", "when you are", and "where you are". End of story.
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Right.
Why am I experiencing this moment? Because I am the experience of this moment.
And I understand that that is the right answer, but I can't do away with the intuitive concept of being an observer observing things, or that perceptions must be perceived.
The whole problem comes about from this scenario:
You're completely unconscious. While you're unconscious an exact replica is made of you (just take this for granted). Both bodies are awoken at the same time. Which do you awake in? They are the exact same, so it can't be one and not the other, because nothing asymmetrical can come from a perfect symmetry, so it must either be both or neither, but clearly it can't be either one of these.
This problem is resolved by denying the "you" as a thing accessing the experiences of a body.
These are all my thoughts, and I feel like I could answer all my own questions, or that I could have said what ratbastid said, but I still don't get it. Can anyone help me get it?
I could say: "My body is creating perceptions. Why am I perceiving these perceptions and not the ones of another body?"
I know why that's wrong, but hazily.