|
Hmmm. I think this is going to be a difficult topic to discuss - but will try - please try to accept free usage of 'I' and 'Me' as per normal language usage, and occasionally, in a deeper, more pointed way. I'll try to put emphasis on the words when I mean to use them more pointedly.
asaris, I'm quite happy to accept that the body typing this exists. And for that matter, I'm also happy that out there somewhere, at the other end of a network of cables, your body is out there somewhere, in a very real and existant sense, reading this.
What I'm more concerned about is what this notion of self that I assume we both have actually is. You have to a notion of self in order to have a notion of self - it just pops itself out of nowhere without any causation.
And yes we are our bodies, until various parts of those bodies are chopped off. If I loose my arms and legs, they are no longer a part of me.
Example: Say we had a willing subject, we could continue the subtraction process, asking both separated pieces to 'raise their hand' if they are the part in which the 'me' resides. Would we eventually be able to get down to a single organ, or group of cells? I don't know, but I guess if we could, it would be in the brain - hence my suggestion that the real 'I' lurks somewhere behind my eyes and between my ears, my body simply being a convenient transportation and manipulation tool.
|