What keeps me in this body?

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Why Am I, I?
What keeps me in this body?
Lorenz Duremdes, Polymath
Dec 9 · 3 min read
Why am I… I? Why am I not someone else? Why I am born in this body?
Why am I not born in a different body? Or a different universe? And what
keeps me in this body?
Just a mere chance? Like the creation of this universe was just mere chance
too?
Or deliberate, like a machine… a program within a simulated reality?
It is like asking with this apple is an apple. Why isn’t it an orange? Without
this apple, we couldn’t even ask this question.

3. Without me, I couldn’t specifically ask this question either, from my unique
perspective.
It is like duplicating myself with all my memories and then asking that
person: “Why are you, you?”
Whereupon my duplicate would respond with: “Because you created me.”
I guess it’s the same concept with me, but then starting from a much smaller
level.
However, trying to find the “true why” behind something would be like
trying to find a puzzle piece that fits everywhere. It’s not possible because
it’s all relativistic, depending on the dimensions of the other puzzle pieces.
The only puzzle piece that would fit anywhere, would be an “empty puzzle
piece”, but then it wouldn’t exist. It would create a paradox. I guess it’s the
same thing with the question “Why am I, I?”
It is like asking “Why is 1+1=2?” or “Why is energy + atoms + dimensions
= me?”
According to Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, it can’t be proven. Progress
ad infinitum — All proof rests on matters themselves in need of proof, and

4. so on to infinity.
But then again, it must be possible just like the creation of this universe.
There were no rules before the existence of existence itself. There was no
rule saying “Something cannot be created out of nothing”. The empty set
ruled rather than the null set.
And so, it may be impossible to find the true and complete answer behind
“Why am I, I?”
I guess it’s the same concept with me, but then starting from a much smaller
level.
…Where the smallest level will never be found.
I, then, am a mystery that will never be solved. On the other hand, this
leaves plenty of room for doubts, mysteries, and adventures…
“Why are you, you?”
. . .
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