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    #16
    Re: Can you exist without a body?

    Perhaps one day technology will advance enough to allow the brain to be transplanted or sustained outside the body... what then? A brain hooked up to a computer... existing without a body... does a brain constitute the mind? Are mind and consciousness equivalent? What happens when a brain is put in a different body?

    Honestly, that line of thought reminds me of a book I read called unwind which was completely creepy, so now I'm creeped out.
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      #17
      Re: Can you exist without a body?

      Tentative answers to your rhetorical questions...

      Originally posted by Shahaku View Post
      Perhaps one day technology will advance enough to allow the brain to be transplanted or sustained outside the body... what then?
      Sounds absolutely horrible. Without a body, what is there for a mind (or brain) to do?

      A brain hooked up to a computer... existing without a body... does a brain constitute the mind?
      No - it's the brain, in conjunction with input/output from the body, and all the chemical signals that the body produces, which generates the mind.

      Are mind and consciousness equivalent?
      Yes. If you take one away, you take the other away.

      What happens when a brain is put in a different body?
      It becomes a different brain - because the input/output from the body changes, as do the chemical signals produced by the body. The transplanted brain may still work along the same lines (having similar strengths and weaknesses) as it did in it's first body, but everything it reacts to would be different, leading to become something very different from what it once was.
      Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.

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        #18
        Re: Can you exist without a body?

        Can software exist without hardware? No. Can software be moved from one piece of hardware to another? Yes. I think when we die our minds are moved into a spirit body. I think most of that unexplained dark matter is the spirit world.

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