(September 27, 2014 at 12:15 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: I have no idea what you two are talking about. Consciousness is a strange phenomenon as it is without needless speculation about its metaphysics.
I absolutely feel that I am my body. Yes, if you cut off your hand, it is no longer you. Right. Because you are not in a body, you are a body.
As far as time being non-existent outside of your mental processes, it's really just absurd when you think about it since you know, you had a beginning, and there were causes before you that led to your existence. The nature of time may not be exactly as we perceive it at any given moment (there I go again), but to say time may not exist is about as unintelligible a statement as I can imagine.
Of course you feel as if your the body, that's how you suppose to feel, that lets you live your life as a human being, but the truth is that you are not just the body, you are all there is. We are not separate from the Cosmos, we are the Cosmos, we are looking at things in a very narrow minded way, and because of this we are missing the whole.
