willem wrote:
The idea of "being someone else" always confuses me, when it's brought up. Which exact aspects/parts of the other person would I be getting, and which of me would I lose? Just external things like appearance, name and living situation, or also mental traits? And what about memories? If I would completely become the other person (and, logically, the other person would completely become me, because we can't both be him/her), then nothing at all would change, and the question would be moot.
Me too. It always came down to "why the hell would I want to be an idiot?" which was how I viewed everyone for the longest time. Although I had no problem with the idea of maybe replicating myself and being say, Dinobot from beast wars. This way I wouldn't loose myself I'd reproduce another copy of me and than turn into something else and thus know what its like being him while I'm also being myself.
When I found someone that interested me it was never a "I want to be like him," it was always, "Hey, I'm a lot like him." or, "hey, we have these things in common." it never went further than that other than my few attempts to imitate things when I was younger but that turned bad too because I would imitate some singer no one but me liked or something like a dog and when people played pretend I'd go crazy that they didn't do it right. My desire to play with people was obscenely rare however.