Are incorporial beings even possible? I asked this question in the religion section, but I figured I would probably get some better answers in philosophy.
2007-01-23 11:03:38 · 6 answers · asked by Link 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Maybe the reason thinking things have corporeal bodies is that they think solidity around them. Maybe that has something to do with self image, makes you wonder why humans are so much alike.
2007-01-23 12:09:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the present time on our planet, yes. Maybe (and this is a very big maybe) on other planets, but not on ours. And maybe sometime in the future, humans will be able to hook a brain up to some sort of machine so that it can live without an actual heart pumping blood to it.
As for a non-human thing, like a spirit or something, I don't believe in ghosts and such.
2007-01-23 19:24:48 · answer #2 · answered by Liz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im no brainiac, but I would think anything that actually thinks, probaby has a larger brain, in which case it would need strong protection around it, and then a body to be able to carry it and mobilize it.
Right?
2007-01-23 19:15:06 · answer #3 · answered by Dawn H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, it is great challenge for thinking creature to have a body...There is certain "things"attached to the body which challenge thinking one not to think..it creates new life tasks for thinking one to learn think better..or differently?
2007-01-23 19:33:53 · answer #4 · answered by Oleg B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that somewhere there could be an intelligent "mind" in a pure energy field....no body.
2007-01-23 19:14:55 · answer #5 · answered by rhonda y 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
spirits are thinking arent they? I suppose paranormality covers that topic.
2007-01-23 20:13:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋