Could it be possible that you are everyone that has ever lived, and that will live

How high are you currently? Call me stupid, but I am a bit lost

Do you mean like reincarnation? So every time you (or me, since we're the same person ) die you get reborn as someone else?

It's always been at the back of my mind, don't you ever look at someone and think "Am .. am I you but in a different lifetime"


Yes kind of like reincarnation, but my idea focuses a lot more on the consciousness aspect of it. Because when you see someone, the thing that separates both of you is not the space between you, but instead the idea that you have different consciousness.
My question is that could the consciousness they're feeling be the exact same consciousness that you're feeling, and that you're both the exact same person but just in a different time looking at each other from a different perspective

Not really, because your thoughts come from your brain, and everyone's brain is unique so we cannot be one consciousness. There is an idea called 'solipsism' which says that only your mind is real and everyone else may not exist outside it which is quite interesting and worth a read.

Lol I've always had that solipsism idea ever since I was a kid and only found out recently that it was a huge philosophical idea.
But this idea is easy to disprove since you(Jonny) have to exist in order to tell me about this idea of others not existing, meaning that me and you both exist in order to acknowledge that idea

What if the idea is in your subconscious and it manifests itself in the form of my post on TSR, when in fact I do not exist outside of your head

haha good point, but I would live a much happier life pretending that everyone around me is actually real rather having the idea that they're all dead zombies with no consciousness

It's a VERY VERY slim possibility but I'd never rule it out.

Is it slim though? . Your mind could be a computer simulation that thinks it's a person. A computer that has created a whole world full of 'people' that only exist in its own consciousness!

Do you have any reason to think that other than: 'it is plausible'?

Not really, because your thoughts come from your brain, and everyone's brain is unique so we cannot be one consciousness. There is an idea called 'solipism' which says that only your mind is real and everyone else may not exist outside it which is quite interesting and worth a read.

iv always wondered if this was true then where would your brain be would everyones be together somewhere

i have also wondered i dont know if this is a theory or just me but do you think everyone experiences colour the same ? blue to me could be red to you and how would we know as you cant really describe colour , anyone else wondered this?

i have also wondered i dont know if this is a theory or just me but do you think everyone experiences colour the same ? blue to me could be red to you and how would we know as you cant really describe colour , anyone else wondered this?

Hahaha I wondered that! There's a guy on YouTube called Vsauce and he did a video on that. I love his channel, here's the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evQsOFQju08

It's kind of long but I found it interesting!

We get colour from the different rods or cones in our eyes, and since everyone is slightly different I think we would see colours slightly differently but it wouldn't be like my red being your green