Where do "you" begin and end?

[Landon Caeli]

Lately I've been thinking of my interactions with other people, as floating brains interacting with other floating brains... So is that where we are, in our brains..? Or are we our whole body..? Or is it that we are spirit's who are the lord's of our bodies, and every little chemical and electric reaction in our brain is like our own universe, and our consciousness is like a god of that little world? Or perhaps we're all interconnected pieces of a larger human spirit.

 

[Hans Blaster]

I have a very well defined, visible limit. My brain doesn't "float" or interact directly with other brains (floating or other wise).

I also fail to see what this post has to do with ethics or morality.

 

[Ken-1122]

Lately I've been thinking of my interactions with other people, as floating brains interacting with other floating brains... So is that where we are, in our brains..? Or are we our whole body..? Or is it that we are spirit's who are the lord's of our bodies, and every little chemical and electric reaction in our brain is like our own universe, and our consciousness is like a god of that little world? Or perhaps we're all interconnected pieces of a larger human spirit.

We are our whole body.

 

[Landon Caeli]

We are our whole body.

Oh, hi Ken. Good seeing you again.

 

[Landon Caeli]

We are our whole body.

Except, when I look in the mirror at my eyes, I see eyes that are thousands of years old... These are not really my eyes. These eyes belong to my ancestors... But "me"... I am the vocal narrator that is called "consciousness".

 

[Abaxvahl]

Lately I've been thinking of my interactions with other people, as floating brains interacting with other floating brains... So is that where we are, in our brains..? Or are we our whole body..? Or is it that we are spirit's who are the lord's of our bodies, and every little chemical and electric reaction in our brain is like our own universe, and our consciousness is like a god of that little world? Or perhaps we're all interconnected pieces of a larger human spirit.

We are the whole person, body, soul, and spirit, bound in a specific place. I can know that I am my body for I alone know what it is like to have my toe or something, but when it is separated by amputation I can no longer know what it is like to have or be that. The soul and spirit for Christians is self-evident. The activities on the three parts of the soul are in one place and nowhere else, I can not realize God from China when I am in America. So I end where my body ends.

 

[Ken-1122]

Except, when I look in the mirror at my eyes, I see eyes that are thousands of years old... These are not really my eyes. These eyes belong to my ancestors... But "me"... I am the vocal narrator that is called "consciousness".

When I look in the mirror, I only see myself.

 

[Landon Caeli]

When I look in the mirror, I only see myself.

Not me. I see million year-old eyeballs.

 

[Occams Barber]

Not me. I see million year-old eyeballs.

Maybe you need new glasses.

OB

 

[Mark Quayle]

Lately I've been thinking of my interactions with other people, as floating brains interacting with other floating brains... So is that where we are, in our brains..? Or are we our whole body..? Or is it that we are spirit's who are the lord's of our bodies, and every little chemical and electric reaction in our brain is like our own universe, and our consciousness is like a god of that little world? Or perhaps we're all interconnected pieces of a larger human spirit.

There was a faith-healer of Deal,

Who said, "Although pain isn't real,​

If I sit on a pin

And it punctures my skin,​

I dislike what I fancy I feel."

 

[Landon Caeli]

Maybe you need new glasses.

OB

Our DNA is so old, it's not even funny. We're the survivors of the survivors from the beginning of life.

 

[Mark Quayle]

Our DNA is so old, it's not even funny. We're the survivors of the survivors from the beginning of life.

From what I understand, in the resurrection, though we will have glorified bodies, it is THESE bodies, glorified. No, I don't know what that means, other than no ailments, disfigurements, disease or blemishes.

 

[TheWhat?]

Try coming up with a useful invention, and see if it hasn't already been thought of. I'd bet it has.

Potentiality is limited. I don't think we're really as unique as we like to think we are. You could even have a near-identical twin somewhere in the world and not even closely related to you.

 

[Mark Quayle]

Try coming up with a useful invention, and see if it hasn't already been thought of. I'd bet it has.

Potentiality is limited. I don't think we're really as unique as we like to think we are. You could even have a near-identical twin somewhere in the world and not even closely related to you.

True. I'm 60% banana DNA, so that leaves a lot of room.

 

[StevenJ]

Our bodies are a Temple to the Lord, where our soul's reside in every life. They do say our eyes are the, "window to the soul". The question is, how do you determine how old your soul is?

 

[Mark Quayle]

I'm wondering about the Bride of Christ. Is she many souls, or one soul made of many, or what?

 

[Petros2015]

I'm still trying to figure out why I keep waking up as Me and not someone else.
I remember sitting on the potty trying to figure this out and I'm nearly 50 now, so it must be a tough question.

 

[Petros2015]

Or is it that we are spirit's who are the lord's of our bodies, and every little chemical and electric reaction in our brain is like our own universe, and our consciousness is like a god of that little world?

Eh, I can't make 1 hair of my head change color naturally. I can move my body, exercise it, build up muscle if I wanted to. More or less the same w my mind. I can even shut my eyes if I want to. But I can't turn off my hearing. If I'm in pain, I can't turn that off either - physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually... well, not without some chemical additives anyway, which I eventually had to forswear. So "Lord of my own body" seems a bit of an overreach. No one else has direct use of my appendages, so far as I can tell, that's good, but that's about it.

Even that can be an overreach (I know we both quit smoking recently, but how many times did you swear off previously, only to suddenly find you had auto-grabbed a pack and lit one up without remembering the swear-off? Quite a few for me)

I'm not entirely certain where my thoughts come from - I suspect "from the heart/soul" which can be a bit disconcerting depending on their quality and content from time to time.

"our brain is like our own universe, and our consciousness is like a god of that little world?"

Kind of, but small god, small world.
Imagination is limitless, but locked in that world, pretty impotent.
It's also limitless... but in a finite direction, so to speak. And not necessarily the best one.
And eventually things go bad there, like Lewis's "spoiled egg" that never hatched
I don't think we are meant to be Gods there either
(and believe me, I tried - it didn't go well)
(but it's OK, almost no one noticed lol)

Or perhaps we're all interconnected pieces of a larger human spirit.

I think we may be (having been created by a divine spirit) pieces of that divine spirit
So not seeking the will of that Creator and then doing it
(or knowing it, and then refusing and doing the opposite...)
...It's a little like a piece of God turning it's back on itself
Which sounds like it would be a pretty painful contortion
And I can assure you
It is

 

[Petros2015]

Our DNA is so old, it's not even funny. We're the survivors of the survivors from the beginning of life.

True, it took QUITE a lot to get us here. Not quite on topic w this thread, but I've been enjoying it lately.
Even in the last 1000 years, there have been an awful lot of 6's.
I think we needed a few just to get through the Cuban Missile Crisis.

 

[Occams Barber]

True, it took QUITE a lot to get us here. Not quite on topic w this thread, but I've been enjoying it lately.
Even in the last 1000 years, there have been an awful lot of 6's.
I think we needed a few just to get through the Cuban Missile Crisis.

For the first 20 seconds I agreed with him, then it all turned into the hackneyed PRATT known as the Fine Tuning argument.

Is there nothing new in life??

OB