Ask HN: Is Each Human Unique?
It seems that a lot of people have different ways of doing stuff. Some of us “needs” to sleep 8 hours, “needs” to work for 12 hours a day, “needs” to do meditation or to have an happy hour.
But if we are all humans, and all of us have pretty much the same survival motives and physical mechanism. How can we function so differently?
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We are unique because we have a unique mind and experiences, I like the anecdote about the tape measure here as an example:
http://blobthescientist.blogspot.com/2013/11/of-course-it-hu...
As a counter I'd point out the science fiction trope of a "Hive Mind" as seen in The Forever War and many other books about space wars.
Do we really function so differently? How? (sleep/work/activities habits margins are kind of a small detail)
Because there's difference in brain. Brain will tell exactly what to do next, what to think about next,...
We are different because evolution depends on it.