• Yer Ma
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      5 months ago

      So, your “self” isn’t just your brain, you have an entire nervous system throughout your body AND a secondary system linked to your gut and secondary tissues… Being just a brain isn’t even close to all of “you”

      You know phantom limb syndrome? Imagine phantom everything syndrome

      • @jarfil@beehaw.org
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        75 months ago

        Counter-argument: imagine a robot body with 8 arms.

        By the time you get used to them, you’ll have forgotten about all the rest. Neuroplasticity is an interesting thing.

      • @HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone
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        45 months ago

        yeah that sounds great, liberate me from the endocrine. Haven’t you ever wondered how it would feel to be seperate from all the hormones and animal miscellenia? I think about it a lot.