I would say that I am a person. I am conscious and bodily to be sure, but I am not a mind or a body, and I don't have a body. — Kurt Keefner
This means simply that the perceiving mind is an incarnated body, or to put the problem in another way, he enriches the concept of the body to allow it to both think and perceive. It is also for these reasons that we are best served by referring to the individual as not simply a body, but as a body-subject. — Kurt Keefner
you'd still be a self, though probably insane in short order. — Vera Mont
I am not a soul, and I am not my brain. I am a whole, conscious, physical unit. — Kurt Keefner
I am conscious and bodily to be sure, but I am not a mind or a body, and I don't have a body.
While we're at it, I am not a soul, and I am not my brain. I am a whole, conscious, physical unit. — Kurt Keefner
Yes, rather you are a body (i.e. metacognitivrly self-aware, decaying flesh & bone; once an unviable foetus and not yet a rotting corpse) at the very least.I don't have a body. — Kurt Keefner
:clap: :fire:... 'person' is derived from 'persona' which were the masks worn by actors in Greek drama. It corresponds to 'ego', which is, we can say, the self's idea of itself, and refers to what we are consciously aware of as ourselves, who we ourselves think that we are. — Wayfarer
:100:I think "mind" is what the brain and body does ... — BC
It seems like separating "mind" and "body" requires some sort of unseen and unseeable world where mysterious thinking occurs. It's too 'otherworldly' for my taste. — BC
While we're at it, I am not a soul, and I am not my brain. I am a whole, conscious, physical unit. — Kurt Keefner
I don't "have" a body, because to do so would require that I am separate from my body. I am not the car that I own. — Kurt Keefner
In any case, I am not worried about outliers. — Kurt Keefner
No, to have something doesn't necessarily imply that the something is separate from yourself - hence why we say things like "my body" - or, for that matter, "my mind." Yes, you are a whole person, with a body, and its various parts, and a mind, and its various aspects. — SophistiCat
I am conscious and bodily to be sure, but I am not a mind or a body, and I don't have a body. — Kurt Keefner
I think that when we consider personhood and rationality in general we are going to have to deal with borderline cases, and at least some of these will fall into the ethical community. We'll need more that my definition of a person to settle some of these issues. — Kurt Keefner
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