Where is the self?
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@evan Somewhere in the Objective-C runtime that runs the universe.
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@evan in the community
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@evan I really think guts! but I picked brain from the choices.
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@evan Tough one! Brain is _very important_ but it doesn't exist in a vacuum, it's affected by the rest of the body with its hormone productions and its biofeedback loops to the outside world.
For poll purposes I feel like I have to pick "the brain" but with an asterisk for ", but..."
*voted*
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@evan the body brain continuum
Without the sensorium of the body would there be a self?
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@evan missing the real answer: the stomach and intestines
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I vote the spirit I don't believe in physics / logic-execution being enough for consciousness, so I have to think it my "self" is something else. Though I guess this reasoning doesn't necessarily exclude the idea of particles having some sort of transcendental quality which consciousness comes from....
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@evan the body brain continuum
Without the sensorium of the body would there be a self?
@smallcircles
Yeah, I can make a case for "all of the above", but without the central nervous system, at least for humans, there is no "self".
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@evan Body and soul together.
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@evan I really think guts! but I picked brain from the choices.
@maj you're the guts
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@maj you're the guts
@evan I contain multitudes (of diverse gut bacteria that might be at least partly responsible for the illusion of a continuous self!)
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@evan I picked heart. It is the closest to what I actually believe, which is the center of the gut just a few centimeters below the navel, inside the body. Some theories believe the thinking part ("the brain") of the nervous system is mostly interpreting and telling a story about the behavior we decide on a more intutive level (gut feeling). Michael Gazzaniga's study of the interpreter function is famous for this.
