MMP uses "I am my body" or phrases like it several times in PoP. BEGIN QUOTE Insofar as it stands before me and presents its systematic variations to ...
I think Rand might agree with MP in a very general way. He says "I am my body," but he means a conscious body. Rand says that a human is an indivisibl...
I think that when we consider personhood and rationality in general we are going to have to deal with borderline cases, and at least some of these wil...
Some Christian writer was responding to the claim that "I have a soul." He said "No, you are a soul. You have a body." That was the sense of "have" I ...
Part of my definition of "person" is that one is conceptually conscious, i.e. rational. Some animals seems to have a primitive form of reason, so I su...
I think you're correct in bringing sense organs into the discussion. Brains don't see and feel. Brains working with eyes and flesh as a living unit se...
Excuse me, I forgot a good book I read some time back about why we are not our brains. It's called Out of Our Heads and it's by philosopher-neuroscien...
I don't "have" a body, because to do so would require that I am separate from my body. I am not the car that I own. My point of view is difficult to s...
A "person" is the true entity that I am. It is the "chunk" that humanity comes in. It's more specific than "being." Here's my definition of "person": ...
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