Re: The Ultimate Question
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So only that combination turns into "you". Might some other combination turn into the same "you" except with freckles (or a different sex organ)?
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We can go further -- given one egg and one sperm, there is more than one possible you. This is, in fact, provable -- Identical Twins. Same egg, same sperm, but you can have very different people.
Similarly, unless we care to argue that the twins have the same soul, or share a soul or something like that, it seems that any infusion of a soul into a human must take place sometime after conception (at least one of the twins received a soul at or after the fertilized egg splits).
A more interesting though unanswerable question is whether any soul is tied to the biology at all, or does the essence of what makes you, you come from somewhere else altogether.
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