Do you feel like you are your brain (and your stomach or whatever else)?
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I'm my brain, or my heart, or my stomach, or my dick, .... or wherever my blood is mostly at a given time :-p
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Answered yes but for clarity need to know if you meant this in the materialist way, like "you're a bundle of organs interacting with matter"
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You sure as hell feel like just the shell when there's something going wrong internally, especially with any kind of mental illness that you can be fully aware of but can't do anything about it
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Trick question. I am the patterns formed by that material, the potential of the material, and am also a piece of the entire world and the entire world forms part of me to varying degrees. So Yes, I am the material and No, that's not all that I am, nor everything important in me.
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If I didn't have a brain I wouldn't "feel" like I was anything. It's the one part of me I absolutely couldn't lose and still even consider the possibility.
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How would it feel? - I'd say I feel like an embodied creature, not just a brain.
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I mean, I definitely wouldn't phrase it like that: I would just say I am my body.
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I believe I am my brain, but it doesn't feel that way.
It feels like there are sensations at the ends of my fingers, and colors and sounds at the edge of my eyes and ears. But if those impulses don't find their way to my head, and mix with my neurons, would I experience them?
