I have always wondered this. I will try my best to explain what I mean.
Why is life viewed through this body that I have? Why do I not view life through the body of someone else? Actually, why was I not someone else?
My consciousness, why is it in this body? If I were to use religious terms, why is my "soul" in this body?
Someone told me once that it is because of the genes that go into making me, but that doesn't answer why. If my mother had had sex with another man instead of my father, would my consciousness still be a part of that new individual? Would I be that person? Or woul