Open individualism is a view in the philosophy of self, according to which there exists only one numerically identical subject, who is everyone at all times, in the past, present and future.
[1]: xxii The term was coined by Croatian-American philosopher Daniel Kolak,[2] though this view has been described at least since the time of the Upanishads, in the late Bronze Age; the phrase "Tat tvam asi" meaning "You are that" is an example.
[citation needed] Others who have expressed similar views (in various forms) include the philosophers Averroes,[3] Arthur Schopenhauer,[4] and Arnold Zuboff,[5] mystic Meher Baba,[6] stand-up comedian Bill Hicks,[7] writer Alan Watts,[8] as well as physicists Erwin Schrödinger,[9] Freeman Dyson,[10] and Fred Hoyle.
[1] There is always a substructure embedded in the sum of all experiential computations which assimilates the past from the inside of its causal structure.
However sadistic punishment just for the sake of revenge doesn’t make sense, according to open individualism, since it just causes more suffering for you to experience.