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Fair enough, it's interesting to think about but I still don;t think it works relating to the subject because we are our bodies, it's as kind of cartesian dualism that is compelling but in my opinion leads down the wrong path.
Comment by labcoat_samurai at 14/01/2025 at 16:27 UTC
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Yeah, without derailing this too much, since it's something I find very interesting but is also a bit off topic, I do think that separating mind from body isn't as simple as people envision. We aren't software. Or at least, our brains aren't computers that are theoretically capable of playing different identities and personalities as if they were software.
But the presence of a physical body isn't essential. We already can't know for sure that we aren't brains in jars, because every way that we interact with the world is through senses which could, in principle, be simulated.
An actual physical, sexed body that truly exists isn't essential to our experience, identity, and consciousness.
So, I'm a monist. I don't believe, as a dualist does, that consciousness is a separate substance from the brain and body. But I don't take the physicalist stance that our biological brains and bodies are essential to our consciousness and experience.