like… idk how to explain it… I didn’t exist, but these two people just decided: hmm you know what, lets make another one that’s half me half you
One moment I didn’t exist, then like I sort of exist for 9 months in limbo between the realm of non-living to the living realm, then finally full existence (but I have no memories of infancy, does that really count as existing?)
What the heck.
I think I’m having another existential crisis lol
How is consciousness even possible?
If you played Nier Automata, there’s a line/concept about ‘meaningless code’. The characters in the game are just androids. 1s and 0s, yet we care about the characters.
We are all just meat sacks roaming around, yet we still care about those meat sacks. I just met you as a username. A bunch of characters on a screen. Yet I’m treating that bunch of characters as a human being, and talking to them.
And if you like the odds of you exsisting, the graphic novel Watchmen also has a great chapter about that.