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Don't gish gallop. > What does it mean for a body to be "mine?" You are your body. > So - does water flowing down a hill have a perspective? Where is it loca
by guerrilla 5y ago
Don't gish gallop.
> What does it mean for a body to be "mine?"
You are your body.
> So - does water flowing down a hill have a perspective? Where is it located?
Why would it? Does it sense and produce a mind? Not that I'm aware of. You could go the pansychism route if you want though. See David Chalmers or something.
> can I say that I'm any less the water as I am my hands, even though I'm controlling the water, getting feedback from the water, subjecting the water as much to my nervous system as I am subjecting my hand itself?
According to enactivism, no. [1] In general, see embodied minds theory. [2]
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enactivism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enactivism
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition
- pessimizer 5y agoI'm not intending to. I wasn't proposing all of that as separable questions. I was proposing it as a series of statements that I have no material means to say anything about. > Why would it? Does it sense and produce a mind? I don't know what a mind is supposed to be in this context, or its importance. I don't identify my perspective with my thoughts. My thoughts are something a body does. My perspective is just my location. After death, my thoughts will cease. My location will not change.
- mannykannot 5y agoI cannot guess what point you are trying to make here, but I do know that 'location' is not a synonym for 'perspective'. If you are going to ask questions, you should at least be able to justify their relevance, if asked.