I came across an interesting webpage when I was stumbling through the internet last night. Basically, it said something to the effect of this: If I were to ask you "hey, what do you look like?" You would probably picture in your mind something like a self portrait of yourself, or a recent picture of you. But is that really what you look like?
What do you look like when you are as close as you can possibly be? Atoms and molecules, right?
What do you look like from .00000001 meters away?
What do you look like from 1 inch away?
What do you look like from a few feet away? (a person, duh)
What do you look like from 1 mile away? A little dot, I guess
What do you look like from 10 miles up in the sky? Well you would see patches of land, of buildings I guess
What do you look like from 1000 miles away? The Earth
What do you look life from a billion miles away? A speck?
After reading this it really made me think about conventional "identity". Of course, we live every second of our lives within a body, but is the physical limits of this body really where we end? After I read all of those questions, I can honestly say that when you shift your perspective a bit, a couple atoms are you....and the whole of earth is you...the whole milky way even!
Am I crazy or what?
EDIT:
I would like to clarify my point of view. What I am saying is that your identity is dependant on your point of view LITERALLY.
from 1000 miles away YOU are LITERALLY the EARTH!!!
What do you look like when you are as close as you can possibly be? Atoms and molecules, right?
What do you look like from .00000001 meters away?
What do you look like from 1 inch away?
What do you look like from a few feet away? (a person, duh)
What do you look like from 1 mile away? A little dot, I guess
What do you look like from 10 miles up in the sky? Well you would see patches of land, of buildings I guess
What do you look like from 1000 miles away? The Earth
What do you look life from a billion miles away? A speck?
After reading this it really made me think about conventional "identity". Of course, we live every second of our lives within a body, but is the physical limits of this body really where we end? After I read all of those questions, I can honestly say that when you shift your perspective a bit, a couple atoms are you....and the whole of earth is you...the whole milky way even!
Am I crazy or what?
EDIT:
I would like to clarify my point of view. What I am saying is that your identity is dependant on your point of view LITERALLY.
from 1000 miles away YOU are LITERALLY the EARTH!!!