How are the mind and body connected?
Take, for instance, psychosomatic disorders - psycho from psyche' (the mind), and soma (of the body). What you suggest is that mind and body are entirely inseparable. While it is true that that the body supports brain function, it is incorrect to suppose that the two are not mutually exclusive. As posted previously by another AF member, there are means of keeping a body alive that is without brain function; and I have refrained from mentioning that successful operations have been carried out where a brain has been successfully removed from the human cranium, for a short length of time, and reinserted/reconnected only to function in apparent normalcy once again.
The reason this is not such a miraculous marvel to be in circulation within the general population/media is because only the same brain has been reinserted into the same body as it left. Why? Because keeping a brain conserved and keeping a brain alive (outside the body) are two different matters and the ethical limitations wouldn't permit a functioning human (or two) to have a brain transplant.
So while the limits of the profession restrict a brain and body being divided/selected to live/die another field opens on the what if . . .
Given an opportunity, science will quickly spread into this area so it is only enivitable to occur and perhaps, outside our time, make news headlines of one person reemerging to find themselves in another human body.
Take, for instance, psychosomatic disorders - psycho from psyche' (the mind), and soma (of the body). What you suggest is that mind and body are entirely inseparable. While it is true that that the body supports brain function, it is incorrect to suppose that the two are not mutually exclusive. As posted previously by another AF member, there are means of keeping a body alive that is without brain function; and I have refrained from mentioning that successful operations have been carried out where a brain has been successfully removed from the human cranium, for a short length of time, and reinserted/reconnected only to function in apparent normalcy once again.
The reason this is not such a miraculous marvel to be in circulation within the general population/media is because only the same brain has been reinserted into the same body as it left. Why? Because keeping a brain conserved and keeping a brain alive (outside the body) are two different matters and the ethical limitations wouldn't permit a functioning human (or two) to have a brain transplant.
So while the limits of the profession restrict a brain and body being divided/selected to live/die another field opens on the what if . . .
Given an opportunity, science will quickly spread into this area so it is only enivitable to occur and perhaps, outside our time, make news headlines of one person reemerging to find themselves in another human body.
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