I heard a story from my Philo I professor about the story of the "brain in a bath"... He told us about a brain that was removed from a man's head and then was put into a basin with liquid (whatever it is...) and then was connected with certain apparatus that preserves the life of the cells and nerves of the brain... Everything wasn't changed... It is still alive... The difference is just that it is not inside the skull of a person...The apparatus programs all the datas in that brain... Everything..... And then he asked us... Are you sure, you are not just a "brain in a bath"?
Well you...Are you sure you are not just a "brain in a bath"?
2006-11-25 02:43:38 · 7 answers · asked by Rochelly 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Maybe we are all 'brains in a bath'... but unlike the 'tub bound brain' we can communicate... and each of our bathes...(because we can communicate) operates from a different perspective. It's probably obvious that I've never taken a philosophy course in my life... but honestly: does it matter? It's the welcome perspective of all these 'separately bound brain bathes' that makes life interesting to me.
2006-11-25 03:05:09 · answer #1 · answered by Mikisew 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First of all, I hope you know that a brain transplant is medically impossible!
But, it does raise an interesting scenario. Where does the brain stop and the mind begin? This has been asked countless times over the ages. No one really has the answers. Is the "mind" just part of the brain, or it is more?
There have been brain transplants done on monkeys. A doctor in Cleveland has been doing it off and on for 2 decades. Only he does a full head transplant because it is impossible to connect all of the capillaries and such in the nasal cavity before the brain would bleed out. Also, they cannot yet reconnect the spinal cord, so all of the monkeys were parapelegics. The monkeys have lived for up to 2 weeks, ubt which characterisitcs they have exemplified (that of the body or head) is still up for debate.
2006-11-25 03:14:40 · answer #2 · answered by Random 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In your teachers story he mentioned that the apparatus programs all the datas in that brain.
With this in mind, then the answer to your question is NO.
I am not simply a "brain in a bath" because I am not being programed by an outside source.
2006-11-25 03:49:11 · answer #3 · answered by April J 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hey Rochellyh...,
Your philosophy professor has an interesting scenerio. If you took it a little further and you would be able to fully communicate, then, I would say 2 things:
1) I would rather take a shower,
2) I could still answer questions on Yahoo!
2006-11-25 02:47:46 · answer #4 · answered by BuyTheSeaProperty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i bath my brain dayly in thought and wine and good cigars .in the bath the brain did nothing but not die it did not do anything yet i do things .is it i who am the bath or is it i that baths .we do not no if the person was traped in the liveing brain in the basinor was the brain simply meet whitout the man in it .
2006-11-25 02:50:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hey. That was my friends Brain. He was searching it all over for the past few years.
Where is this Brain now?
BYE
2006-11-25 02:50:08 · answer #6 · answered by Imtiyaz G 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm sure.
If I was, then my ears would be wet............
2006-11-25 02:50:24 · answer #7 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋