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<blockquote data-quote="holo" data-source="post: 73348136" data-attributes="member: 21467"><p>Ah, this is interesting. How can we be more than the sum of our parts? What's this extra... ingredient?</p><p></p><p>So we agree that we're sort of made up of different parts. You can remove the body, you'd still be you, right? Say we remove part of your brain, say, your memories, are you still you? Probably yes. What if we remove another part of your brain? Is there any part of you that could be removed, and you wouldn't be you anymore?</p><p></p><p>Compare it with a car. What <em>is</em> a car? What if you take the engine out? Then it's a car without an engine. Same with the wheels, it'll be a car without wheels. And so on. When you analyze it like that, you will realize that there is in fact no car. Or put another way, there is no "car-ness". It's just a concept, it doesn't exist in and of itself. There's no essential part of the car that <em>is</em> the car.</p><p></p><p>It sounds like a mind game, but the same thing is true for people. It's true for your very being. There's no fundamental or essential part of you without which you would no longer be you. In fact, in a very fundamental way, <em>you don't exist</em>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="holo, post: 73348136, member: 21467"] Ah, this is interesting. How can we be more than the sum of our parts? What's this extra... ingredient? So we agree that we're sort of made up of different parts. You can remove the body, you'd still be you, right? Say we remove part of your brain, say, your memories, are you still you? Probably yes. What if we remove another part of your brain? Is there any part of you that could be removed, and you wouldn't be you anymore? Compare it with a car. What [I]is[/I] a car? What if you take the engine out? Then it's a car without an engine. Same with the wheels, it'll be a car without wheels. And so on. When you analyze it like that, you will realize that there is in fact no car. Or put another way, there is no "car-ness". It's just a concept, it doesn't exist in and of itself. There's no essential part of the car that [I]is[/I] the car. It sounds like a mind game, but the same thing is true for people. It's true for your very being. There's no fundamental or essential part of you without which you would no longer be you. In fact, in a very fundamental way, [I]you don't exist[/I]. [/QUOTE]
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