I put here the explanation of the “third hypothesis as my friend Iacopo (see below)
http://www.iacopovettori.it/laterzaipotesi/eng/The_three_hypotheses.aspx
Historical and philosophical references and concluding remarks
I initially called this idea "the third hypothesis", referring to the number of lives that our "I" has the opportunity to experience: according to the atheists and believers of the three major Western religions, we have only one life (first hypothesis); according to Eastern religions contemplating reincarnation, each of us can experience more life, but each within its own "set of lives," separated by the "sets of lives" of other people (second hypothesis). The third hypothesis is that the lives experienced by our "I" are not only infinite, but are just "all", and therefore I must consider the life of every living creature I meet as a different experience of my own "I", just as my current life. The existing similar philosophic proposals are almost always related to the idea of unity achieved through a divine or cosmic "ONE" to which we all converge, but this weakens the true power of the third hypothesis, because it authorizes each to consider himself an individual detached from the ONE, considering any other living being as a separate experience of a different part of the ONE, which therefore does not concern him directly.Following the conceptual revolution imposed by quantum mechanics, it was necessary to reconsider the universe by adopting an "holistic" vision approach, where all the parts affect each other, from a scientific perspective too. This led some physicists to adhere to pantheistic philosophies.
What ideas coincide exactly with the third hypothesis? If I think that the same "I" who now I feel like "individual" is exactly what every other living being feels like "his", then I am driven to have a generalized solidarity that does not exclude anyone. "I" am all the starving children, "I" am also every animal, every beaten dog in every corner of the earth, without any chance to escape any fate. The only option I have is to do my part to make the world becomes a bit better.
