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Let's say a well respected neurosurgeon takes out your brain. But as the surgeon cuts each nerve that attaches your brain to the rest of your body, she attaches a transmitter/receiver at the cut ends of each nerve, so the nerves can still talk to each other. Finally, as your brain is freed from the confines of your body, it is put in a vat of nutrients.

Now, you can walk, talk, see, and otherwise function as if you're still put together; after all, your brain can still stimulate the nerves that make your arm reach out, and when it touches something, the nerves communicate right back to your brain, right?

So now, let's say you walk back into the lab, and you see your brain floating in this jar.

Where are YOU? Are you in your body, looking at your brain? Or are you in your brain? But wait, if you're actually in your brain, how can you be looking at yourself in the jar?

2007-01-02 17:52:31 · 4 answers · asked by DavID 2 in Society & Culture Other - Society & Culture

4 answers

ahh the wonders of wireless communication.
"You", your memories, the things that make you who you are, are in the Jar

2007-01-02 17:56:09 · answer #1 · answered by southswell2002 3 · 1 0

I'm in my brain. And "I" am not looking at my brain in a jar, "my eyes" are looking at my brain in a jar. I guess.

2007-01-02 17:55:26 · answer #2 · answered by Meg M 5 · 0 0

Did I sign a waiver for this or something?

2007-01-02 21:16:37 · answer #3 · answered by Khalin Ironcrow 5 · 0 0

How do I know it was my brian? = )

2007-01-02 17:57:15 · answer #4 · answered by *~SoL~ * Pashaa del Ñuñcaa. 4 · 0 0

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