Interesting Thought Experiment

I heard a quote once, "you die twice- first when your body dies and second the last time someone remembers you."

Which made me think, if you die the last time someone remembers you, do you live the first time when someone thinks of you the first time?

Imagining if it were true, then you were born the first time your mom thought of you when she was pregnant with you. But what is thinking of you?

You could have been born when your grandmother thought of a grandchild in the future. Or when your great ancestors from the 1800s thought of their distant future offspring.

Why do people directly related to you have to birth you for the first time? Anyone in the past who was capable of thought in the past would have.

If thinking of you is thinking of anything you could be and any category you could fit in, you would have been born many times.

When did humans become able to think into the distant future? Science says the more fully developed cortex developed 5 million years ago.

So, whenever an early neanderthal thought about the people of the future, you were born for the first time.
Which also means whenever you think of the next generations, billions of people are born for the first time.

Food for thought.

-Adrian