Or, is your body a package which is discardable without loss of “YOU” — Bitter Crank
Are you your body, or are you something apart from your body? — Bitter Crank
We are bodies. Usually not perfect, sometimes quite deformed. Our capacities are spread wide, from profound deafness to very acute hearing; blindness at birth to poor vision onto excellent vision (but never as good as some animals).
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Most of us are not severely impaired, but very few possess perfect bodies. — Bitter Crank
I read a bit about 'embodied cognition' but stopped to wonder: that very phrase implies that the body is some sort of wrapper. — mcdoodle
Are you your body, or are you something apart from your body? — Bitter Crank
It's full of impolite disinterest and poop. — Nils Loc
I read a bit about 'embodied cognition' but stopped to wonder: that very phrase implies that the body is some sort of wrapper.
— mcdoodle
I think that the op intends that the body is some sort of rapper. — Metaphysician Undercover
You imply that there is such a thing as the perfect body. You also speak of our capacities. I assume that the perfect body would in some way have perfect capacities. Since you seem to think that there is such a thing as the perfect body, how would you describe it, omnipotent? — Metaphysician Undercover
Survival of the fittest, but fittest for what? Perfect body for what role? In proposing that there is a a 'perfect body' out there at the end of the normal distribution, I am proposing only that that body would have optimal characteristics of the human species as we know it now (not as we might know it millennia from now). — Bitter Crank
What then? — Marchesk
I am proposing only that that body would have optimal characteristics of the human species as we know it now (not as we might know it millennia from now). — Bitter Crank
Because the kind of body we are influences the type of social skills and confidence we are likely to have in our abilities, and how robust our expectations are likely to be. — Bitter Crank
NoIs your body YOU? — Bitter Crank
Neither thisOr, is your body a package which is discardable without loss of “YOU”? — Bitter Crank
Nor thisIs a kind of intellectual disembodiment a sin against others? — Bitter Crank
No you are not your body, nor are you (in the only sense of existence we can understand [which we equate with the possibility of experience as illustrated by Berkeley]) something apart from your body. You stand in the same relationship to your body that the sub-program operating the actions, doings and will of a video-game character stands to the pixelated body of the said character that appears on-screen and relates with other pixelated bodies. If the game is the equivalent of life, then when the pixelated body disappears from the screen, the sub-program operating it ceases to function. But the sub-program is never deleted by the death of the body, it merely terminates. God - the machine running the game - still has access to the sub-program, and could re-enact it by necessarily giving it stewardship over another pixelated body. And thus bodily death is the termination of you (in the world), but not your eradication. And what lies on the other side of experience, experience itself cannot tell us, and therefore silence is our final resort.Are you your body, or are you something apart from your body? — Bitter Crank
I'm hesitant to equate survival of the fittest to survival of the perfect. In reality, survival of the fitter is what goes on in the world. Perhaps it is true that people take the transhumanist approach to Darwin's theory and really do think there is an attainable bodily perfection, but I don't buy it. — Heister Eggcart
So for instance, when I was young, my eyesight wasn't quite up to normal standards. I never knew this though, until it worsened in my teenage years. — Metaphysician Undercover
The point, is that being deficient in one way, may influence one to become more efficient in other ways. So if we are to judge the optimum body for the human species, how can we account for the fact that some minor deficiencies can inspire some individuals to become much stronger in other ways? — Metaphysician Undercover
Body....and Soul....and Spirit...baby! — John
The point I am interested in with physical differences, sub-par to optimal, is that whatever one is physically, it is part and parcel of who we are as persons. — Bitter Crank
Sorry to tell you mate... But yes, it does matter to who you are >:O (joking)Like how I'm tall and have a big nose? How does that matter to who I am really? Is being 6'2'' part and parcel of my character as an individual? — Heister Eggcart
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