>>> To think of a human body as human is really a wrong way to look at it. To know why, ask yourself this question-- are people who have no limbs, hands or can'

>>> To think of a human body as human is really a wrong way to look at it. To know why, ask yourself this question-- are people who have no limbs, hands or can't see or hear human? Our hands, legs, skins well nearly every thing in our bodies are more or less non intelligent entities at best serving as sensor inputs and bio-mechanical parts which move things around, which give inputs and receive inputs from the brain. I disagree. Do you know any human beings who don't have a body? People may be able to do without (many) parts, but that doesn't mean that people can do without any kind of body at all. I could be wrong, and I'm peaking broadly here, but it sounds like your argument is the same as Descartes' Mind-Body problem. Most of the sciences that deal with the human mind (such as Psychology, Neurology, Cognitive Neurobiology, etc...) treat the human mind as "embodied". That is, the functions that make up the human mind are correlated with certain regions of the brain (and body). It's important to be careful about the phrasing here -- it's not really true that the brain and the mind are the same things; or that one creates the other in an obvious, mechanistic fashion. But it is certainly true that minds require brains (and bodies) to function, and they are so tightly interwoven that it's very difficult to even talk about it sensibly.