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Originally Posted by Macheath
I agree with those who are saying that physical sensation could be simulated by stimulating the brain. As to whether I could live as intellect without any sensation, emotion or feeling...I don't know. No human has ever lived in such a state. Perhaps feeling and sensation are actually inseperable from what we know as consciousness.
You could also ask whether a person would conversely desire a life of great physical and emotional pleasure devoid of any sense of intellectual curiosity or access to knowledge and wisdom.
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I think the assuption that the premise of the question was either or for the first option was invalid. It includes both - a life in the physical world as well as a brain and intellect for a short duration. The or side of the equation is simply an everlasting intellect. Personally - I don't want to know me at 10,000 years of age in intellectual terms. I prefer to live and learn, see, hear, smell, taste, and touch in the physical world. Any existance without this is not living. So -- I choose both for the short duration that I'm given and I choose every day to exploit that to it's fullest potential.