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
Must we share our icky bodies on a pristine philosophy forum? Do we need to be reminded that we are gassy meat-bags? Let the anonymity of the internet leave us the illusion of perfect forms! :D — Real Gone Cat
Is your body YOU?
— Bitter Crank
Yes.
If only all questions were that easy to answer. — Terrapin Station
But couldn't you be a different one? Why aren't you Bitter Crank? — bert1
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
We are governed by all sorts of chemical washes arising from our glands, brains, and guts (from which arise, among other things, all sorts of issues about sexuality) . Our bodies have a fabulously complex Central Nervous System which sometimes (often?) makes a nuisance of us by its devious, clever, subtle and often destructive maneuvers. — Bitter Crank
Faerie nuff...but remember it is believed to be a resurrection of body, soul and spirit; all perfected. Personally, I have no clear idea, but just a vague intuition, of what that might mean.
Is your body YOU? Or, is your body a package which is discardable without loss of “YOU”? Is a kind of intellectual disembodiment a sin against others?
Are you your body, or are you something apart from your body?
Who the brain makes us out to be is dependent on the body that we are. — Bitter Crank
I'd be Bitter Crank in that case instead. — Terrapin Station
he indexical would refer to Bitter Crank in that case. — Terrapin Station
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