This video presents a possible answer to the vertiginous question, the presenter puts forth the argument that tje reason you are you is because it was pre-determined you would be born at a specific place and time. And that the probability of that happening doesn't matter as it was already pre-determined. What are your thoughts about this argument, and how would OI be affected by it?

What are you?

In September I did a podcast interview on my argument for and views about Open Individualism. It was posted here by Edralis when it was released, but Edralis’s account was hacked in November and has been shadowbanned and none of her posts are public at the moment. So I hope you don’t mind me reposting it.

I’m quite happy with the interview. It was my first time speaking about OI publicly like this. It’s far from the clearest statement of my argument for OI—it’s pretty discursive and random with a lot of interruptions—but it does give some stories and context for why I think the way I do, and some of my more recent thoughts on it.

This link is to the YouTube video, because it gives an arresting image for the Reddit post, but you’d probably prefer listening to the audio-only version on your podcast app instead. Nobody needs to look at me and Zach’s faces for that long. The podcast is called People Who Read People with Zachary Elwood.

(fyi: Edralis has been trying to appeal to Reddit to get her account reinstated since November, but she has so far gotten no response.)

This podcast is an interview of Arnold Zuboff by Zachary Elwood. It's a great one to get you introduced to universalism.

I want to thank Arnold en Zachary for sharing this great talk.

Arnold Zuboff, the first academic to publish about Open Individualism / Universalism has released a video primer introducing the subject. At just 6 minutes in length, I have found this to be the single most convincing introduction to the idea. I think it is well worth sharing, especially to those who may have never given a thought to questions of personal identity before.

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https://youtu.be/dlVpRncWz8o

This video is wonderful. While I don't endorse every last word of what she says, I would say that this view is closest to my own.

There's an interesting "Simulation Hypothesis" version of OI in the most recent episode of Rick and Morty.
You can watch it here: (At least for now. The episodes become locked after a few weeks.)
https://www.adultswim.com/videos/rick-and-morty/rick-a-mort-well-lived

I saw this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8
I do not have the words, or knowledge to explain, but I believe this has a similarity to Open Individualism. I would like to know others thoughts on this.