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One really cool question for people is, where do you feel 'you' are - where the core of you are physically. For many people 'you' is like a tension point in you

One really cool question for people is, where do you feel 'you' are - where the core of you are physically. For many people 'you' is like a tension point in your head just behind the eyes. For me it is more in the middle of my chest. This is considered odd in the western world but it is not unheard of. I am not my mind, I am not my ego, I am but a wave in the universe, it comes - it goes it will pass - enjoy it for a while.

nradov 3y ago
That question doesn't even make sense, and I don't understand your reference to the western world. All points in my body are equally part of 'me'.
- zztop44 3y ago
  Try to think of it this way… if we had brain transplant technology and you swapped brains with someone so that your brain ended up in their body and their brain in your body… which one do you think would be you? I’m not sure there’s any clear answer to this as it touches on so many known and unknown unknowns. But, the assertion is that there most people (especially in western intellectual traditions) would consider wherever their brain is to be them (see also the concept of “brain in a vat” etc). This may or may not be true for you specifically.
  - WJW 3y ago
    Neither? "Me" consists of both body and brain, so unless you could find an identical body somehow, neither resulting person would be "me".
  - nradov 3y ago
    I doubt that brain transplants will ever be possible, but in that hypothetical neither one would be me.
  - tikk 3y ago
    There are two of you now. And two of the other. There are tons of brain-like networks of cells in the body, no? In and around the heart and such and I'm certain we'll find more in the next few decades. The fun part begins in how capable either of you and the other will be in establishing a functional union. What's gonna happen when "your brain" recognizes your old body in with another head? Will "it" get horny? Jealous? Angry? Happy? Phantom pain and stuff like that comes to mind and the question of how many dimensions (not levels on scale) of consciousness there are in this physical world/reality ...
  - darkerside 3y ago
    Only an ego would even ask this question
- bawolff 3y ago
  > All points in my body are equally part of 'me'. That's a reasonable belief, but some people do not feel that way. If I had my foot amputated am i still me? If i had my mind transplanted into a different body am I still me? etc. I doubt there are any good answers that are more logical than "I feel this to be true". > I don't understand your reference to the western world Some religions believe that people have a soul that is separate from the body, which contains a person's essence (And say, goes up to heaven when they die or otherwise continues on after death). Even among people who don't buy that, it sets the stage (even perhaps just subconciously) for other dualist beliefs where the body is separate from your "essence" (however you want to define that)
abdulhaq 3y ago
for me it's just above the solar plexus

nradov 3y ago

That question doesn't even make sense, and I don't understand your reference to the western world. All points in my body are equally part of 'me'.

zztop44 3y ago
Try to think of it this way… if we had brain transplant technology and you swapped brains with someone so that your brain ended up in their body and their brain in your body… which one do you think would be you? I’m not sure there’s any clear answer to this as it touches on so many known and unknown unknowns. But, the assertion is that there most people (especially in western intellectual traditions) would consider wherever their brain is to be them (see also the concept of “brain in a vat” etc). This may or may not be true for you specifically.
- WJW 3y ago
  Neither? "Me" consists of both body and brain, so unless you could find an identical body somehow, neither resulting person would be "me".
- nradov 3y ago
  I doubt that brain transplants will ever be possible, but in that hypothetical neither one would be me.
- tikk 3y ago
  There are two of you now. And two of the other. There are tons of brain-like networks of cells in the body, no? In and around the heart and such and I'm certain we'll find more in the next few decades. The fun part begins in how capable either of you and the other will be in establishing a functional union. What's gonna happen when "your brain" recognizes your old body in with another head? Will "it" get horny? Jealous? Angry? Happy? Phantom pain and stuff like that comes to mind and the question of how many dimensions (not levels on scale) of consciousness there are in this physical world/reality ...
- darkerside 3y ago
  Only an ego would even ask this question
bawolff 3y ago
> All points in my body are equally part of 'me'. That's a reasonable belief, but some people do not feel that way. If I had my foot amputated am i still me? If i had my mind transplanted into a different body am I still me? etc. I doubt there are any good answers that are more logical than "I feel this to be true". > I don't understand your reference to the western world Some religions believe that people have a soul that is separate from the body, which contains a person's essence (And say, goes up to heaven when they die or otherwise continues on after death). Even among people who don't buy that, it sets the stage (even perhaps just subconciously) for other dualist beliefs where the body is separate from your "essence" (however you want to define that)

abdulhaq 3y ago

for me it's just above the solar plexus