Padawanbater2
Well-Known Member
Are you your brain? Is your brain.. you?
Confused yet?
Where does your brain end and where do you begin?
Why do we refer to ourselves in this way? "My arm", "My leg", "My, etc."..?
Aren't you just as much your leg as you are your arm or your tongue or your toe?
If you were involved in some accident that resulted in you being cut in half, horizontally, at the waist, no doubt most people would agree that the part of you that makes up "you" would be the top part, above the waist
But why?
What if a similar accident cut your body off at your neck? Through some miracle of science, we were able to keep you alive. What would you say then? ~90% of your physical body has been removed, all that remains is your head and neck. Is that you? Is everything you "are" confined inside of your head? If we save that, have we saved "you"?
What if I cut your brain in half, vertically? Which side is "you"?
Likewise, if I cut your brain in half horizontally, which side do "you" make up?
What makes us us? Where can it be found in the brain?
Confused yet?
Where does your brain end and where do you begin?
Why do we refer to ourselves in this way? "My arm", "My leg", "My, etc."..?
Aren't you just as much your leg as you are your arm or your tongue or your toe?
If you were involved in some accident that resulted in you being cut in half, horizontally, at the waist, no doubt most people would agree that the part of you that makes up "you" would be the top part, above the waist
But why?
What if a similar accident cut your body off at your neck? Through some miracle of science, we were able to keep you alive. What would you say then? ~90% of your physical body has been removed, all that remains is your head and neck. Is that you? Is everything you "are" confined inside of your head? If we save that, have we saved "you"?
What if I cut your brain in half, vertically? Which side is "you"?
Likewise, if I cut your brain in half horizontally, which side do "you" make up?
What makes us us? Where can it be found in the brain?
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