(September 29, 2016 at 4:26 pm)Rhythm Wrote:(September 29, 2016 at 4:25 pm)Tangra Wrote: I'm asserting that the person and the body are not the same.
Yes, we know.....because, apparently, a dead body isn't still us. Meanwhile, in the real world, they very much appear to be the same. I saw my dad on a slab years ago. It was my dad. I don't know what else to tell you.
I am sorry for your loss. I personally haven't lost anyone very close to me.
Rhythm, I'm trying to illustrate a point, other than we are not the body. We are who we are. You are the person who is your father's son. You know your father better than anyone, probably. Your father is much more than 100kg of flesh and bone on a slab. We all are meatbags so to speak, we know that, but then what? Ending the conversation and the point where we are biological creatures with biological functions inhibits real research. The experience of life is not a biology text book.
