Why We Are All Different People Instead of the Same Person

That sounds like the name of a foreign film, doesn't it? Presumably one from India. Or Korea. Not from Germany, but just maybe from France, (where, I think, that would be Porquoi Nous Sommes Tous Personnes Differentes au Lieu de Person Identique. Eh, that makes it sound more like a thriller.) I guess I can see it as hailing from Korea.

It's a good question, though, isn't it? Philosophically. Biologically, of course, this is easily answered, but easy answers are no fun. But, philosophically. Is it really important for us to lead different lives, always with the Descartian possibility that we might be the only one to exist? Perhaps we need to feel alone. Or we need to lead our own lives. Being different people forces us to need to learn to learn from others' successes and failures rather than just our own. If we were all the same person, the concept of independence would be alien to us. But I suppose that we need to cut our own paths. There's a difference between depth and breadth, and although we would know what we would have to do to add to human experience as a whole if we were the same person who already knew what we already did, as different people we need to do the things that have already been done before in order to make experiences that are true to us, that is, to give experience depth. The falseness of separation makes truth every time we discover something for ourselves. If we were the same person we would already know about ourselves, and be forced to explore the cosmos surrounding us since it would be the only thing to do. But we are all different people, and so we must turn inwards, each time, several billion times, in order to discover anything. If we were the same person we would have no need for art, which is just a form of fiction and thus communication of ideas, the fictive elements ensuring the art means something different for everyone. We have art and beauty and love, because we need to communicate because we are all different people. So I guess what I'm saying is that we are different people to make life worth living.

Just a thought.