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An experience must be a universal across times as well as across brains. This experience of being you, here now, would be numerically the same whenever, as well as wherever, it was realized.

— Arnold Zuboff

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We might express this as "all persons are I" or rather as "you and I are the same person".

[I]nflicting pain as retribution for wrongs is a horrible mistake: The person wronged and the person punished are one and the same.

My 8 Big Ideas (2011)

We must see that all places, times and conscious organisms are equally "this one". For a failure to see this must distort our view by forcing us to accommodate in it what seems to be our own special objective status; and that awkward accommodation must then ruin any prospect of discovering the truly objective universal principles that govern the world.

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