Question about birth and how we made it here

[ItalianFX]

This sounds like one of those "out of the body" experiences.

You're basically looking at yourself from an outside view where you wonder who you are today, looking through your eyes as a soul, may be in someone else, but being you. It's quite confusing, but from which only an answer can come from someone who has an objective view with a deep philosophical thought process.

[FortunaMaximus]

Within yourself, then, or from others.

We are what we are because we are. Sounds simplistic, but that's just it, I think.

Slight changes in little things, ripples across time. Sure, anything is possible.

The many-worlds interpretation allows you to be all different things you could possibly be in all those universes, if they sprout from a common timeline.

Whether this is the case or not, that we wonder about these things should make them at least in the realm of possible.

As to the out of the body experience part. Well, it'd be reasonable to think all the manifestations of you, including yourself, share a similar consciousness. Whether there is a Ur-consciousness from which all these different ones emerge is probably a different question.

[Freelancer]

After the rest has tried to answer the spiritual side I'll give the biological side a shot. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

1) You are genetically a combination off your father and your mother and shaped in your later life depending on your experiences.

2) Not biological....

3) Every sperm has a different genetic 'print' and thus you come from one unique sperm.

4) No, every sperm has a different genetic blueprint and thus would produce a different person. (consider that two different egg cells/sperm cells produce two different indivual brothers/sisters).

5) The genetic blueprint would be different and thus a different person would be born.

6) Same answer as answer nr.5.

7) Your gender is based on wether the sperm cell is XY or XX. XY produces a male, and XX produces a female. I would say though that if this is different than you are not the same person. Basically to produce the exact same 'you' all the conditions need to be the same, including whatever mutations your genome has.

Ps. I'm off on a vacation to italy, and english is not my native language. If you happen to be dutch I can explain it much more deeper. Just PM me and I'll get back to you eventually. Infact I need to shave on my biological knowledge so PM me whatever biological questions you have.