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skeletorexplains ONLINE (11/03/2015) [-] 
I've always kinda wondered if the sperm is 'actually' us, or is it just a catalyst to start our life with the end of its own?
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megamolester (11/04/2015) [-] I say you are what you are. The sperm died the moment you became.
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morebuckets (11/03/2015) [-]
Depends what you define as us.
A sperm is basically just a transporter for DNA
A sperm is basically just a transporter for DNA
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nustix (11/03/2015) [-] That's like a cake asking whether it's flour.
Let's say that you could upload your conciousness to a machine and you would killyourself afterwards, would that machine be you?
I don't believe it to be it's a different being with the same thought patterns and memories. Otherwise there would be two of you for a small time, and because you don't share the same conciousness it would be a different person.
Let's say that you could upload your conciousness to a machine and you would killyourself afterwards, would that machine be you?
I don't believe it to be it's a different being with the same thought patterns and memories. Otherwise there would be two of you for a small time, and because you don't share the same conciousness it would be a different person.
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deathtobreakfast (11/03/2015) [-] The game is called SOMA. Its made by frictional gaming who also made Amnesia. Its about the Human race, life and consciousness.
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superoldbadgertwo (11/03/2015) [-]
It's a haploid cell, so it can't be us. We're made up of diploid cells from the exception of the haploid cells within us, eggs, sperm etc.
Pretty much, the sperm is only half of us. The egg is the other half.
In short, the sperm wins the race and gets cell snoo snoo as a reward.
Pretty much, the sperm is only half of us. The egg is the other half.
In short, the sperm wins the race and gets cell snoo snoo as a reward.
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skeletorexplains ONLINE (11/03/2015) [-] Yes, but are we the Virus or was that just a different lifeform all together?
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skeletorexplains ONLINE (11/03/2015) [-] Neither does a jelly fish and i would assume it has a form of "identity"?
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anon (11/04/2015) [-]
actually a jellyfish has a nervous system, but not a brain-like organ. Also i doubt anyone can truly understand what and when we are "us" and when we are not. Look back at the jellyfish: One individual jellyfish lives as a jellyfish and a polyp (think of a sea anemone if you dont know what a polyp is) in a single life span, but does that make it a different being altogether. And what about when the jellyfish is just a larvae? How does that relate to us as sperm versus us a living beings? do we have a consiousness as just a "virus"-like sperm cell? I cant quite say, sorry
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tittylovin (11/03/2015) [-] At what point do we start being sentient? Like three months old? Surely not in the womb, right?
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vorarephilia 
(11/03/2015) [-] sentient within 3-4 months after conception. at that level they respond to sound and are exploring the womb. they are indeed able to sense their surroundings.
sapient is the word I think you want.
sapient is the word I think you want.
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ScottP (11/03/2015) [-] We might become sentient in the very basic sense of the word since we do come out screaming and confused about the world, which would imply we had a brain capable of processing the information we have. That being said, it's not like we just snap into sentience one day either. It gradually progresses over a long time
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tittylovin (11/03/2015) [-] That's weird to think about.
I'm sure it's perfectly normal to people that have had kids or been around them, but for me it's unreal.
Something that's not even human makes a little poop machine and then it grows up and can think and do math and use tools.
Crazy how nature do that
I'm sure it's perfectly normal to people that have had kids or been around them, but for me it's unreal.
Something that's not even human makes a little poop machine and then it grows up and can think and do math and use tools.
Crazy how nature do that
