why is life different from other people?
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For one: we don’t occupy the same space, you can’t stand in the same place as someone else at the same time, and then not for anytime in our lives as we examine the world can we be in the same space. And that’s only our own awareness of ourselves. All our senses are getting a different view than everyone else. Our fingerprints are all different so it’s fairly obvious that everything else about us is also different. We are made of trillions of cells which all probably interpreting their environment within us differently. And then how others respond to us because of their view of us, because they are all different, all these things and a millions others make us all different. It doesn’t stop us all agreeing 1 + 1 = 2, and a host of other things we agree with each other on. We are all different but these differences disappear when we are all under threat by the same problem. Sometimes when we face a common threat we all feel the same and some will even sacrifice their lives to save others because they feel so much the same as each other. We’ve done this since the dawn of time and a mother of many species will risk their lives of save their offspring. Our differences are usually less important than we think because we all struggle against extinction. .!!
The easy answer is that we are, biologically, unique individuals, each with a different arrangement of genes.
A more interesting answer was given by the author Judith Rich Harris in her fascinating book, “No Two Alike”. She investigates how even conjoined identical twins (same genes, share pretty much all the same sequence of experiences) not only are different but appear to actively seek out ways to distinguish themselves from each other. We think it would be heaven to find someone who agrees with us about everything, but Judith Rich Harris showed that we actually become more and more uncomfortable with another individual who agrees with us about more and more things, and only find relief when we find some differences, even if we have to make them up. She posits asserting one’s individual distinctness as a basic human drive.