>>Do you know any human beings who don't have a body? Why do you begin with an assumption that being human implies a body? >>People may be able to do without

>>Do you know any human beings who don't have a body? Why do you begin with an assumption that being human implies 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. Why? I gave a simple thought experiment which described, why you wouldn't even need a biological brain, let alone a biological body. >>they are so tightly interwoven that it's very difficult to even talk about it sensibly. Yet if a person meets an accidents, suffers multiple organ failure and loses both limbs in the process he/she remains a human as he/she was before.