DBT
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I didn't say that the "I" is an illusion. I pointed out that the "I'' is a construct of a brain, the activity of a brain used as a means of interacting with the world. Construct is not the same as illusion.
I know you’re saying that, and it sounds silly.I'm saying that a person is what a Brain is doing,
One cannot think or act without a brain, so that I have no qualms worth arguing over in those regards.every thought and every action is an instance of the brain at work.
I see what you’re saying. That renders the phrase “dead person” oxymoronic but the phrase “dead body” isn’t therefore redundant. Not all bodies are dead. When the underlying neuronal production is at work, the scope of personhood spans both the mind and the body.That without the underlying neuronal production at work, there is no person, only an inanimate/inert body, head, torso, limbs, flesh and bone without the ability to think, feel or act.
I know you’re saying that, and it sounds silly.
One cannot think or act without a brain, so that I have no qualms worth arguing over in those regards.
I see what you’re saying. That renders the phrase “dead person” oxymoronic but the phrase “dead body” isn’t therefore redundant. Not all bodies are dead. When the underlying neuronal production is at work, the scope of personhood spans both the mind and the body.
An entity without a functioning brain may not be a person, but a body with a functioning brain is apart of the person.
I think it’s odd (but common) to personify the brain and it’s activity. Silly even.
It sounds like we agree on substance—just not wording.
As the mind and what you perceive as you is a function of the brain, how can the brain trick you?