And if you say you HAVE a skeleton... then what, specifically, is it that is doing the having? And don't say "my body," because part of your body IS the skeleton.
2007-02-23 14:37:12 · 15 answers · asked by SoCalAgency 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
P.S. For those of you who say you HAVE a skeleton, are you saying your skeleton is less YOU than whatever it is that you say is doing the having? Is your skeleton less you than, for example, your brain? Could one part of you really be any "less you" than any other? AND... how could any one part of you HAVE another part? "HAVE" defined: 1.to possess; own; hold for use; contain: He has property. The work has an index.
2.to hold, possess, or accept in some relation, as of kindred or relative position: He wanted to marry her, but she wouldn't have him.
3.to get, receive, or take: to have a part in a play; to have news.
4.to experience, undergo, or endure, as joy or pain: Have a good time. He had a heart attack last year.
5.to hold in mind, sight, etc.: to have doubts.
2007-02-23 14:50:13 · update #1
It is the brain that is doing the having. What you seem to be asking is where the sense of consciousness starts. I would declare that I have a skeleton. I would declare that "I" am located in my brain. My thoughts, senses, all is located amongst the billions of electrical impulses and neurons in my brain. I am a brain, I have a skeleton, foot, etc.
Good question mate! Keep 'em coming!
(After your revision):
The work that is done, any part of my body that moves- anything that works in tandem as part of an organized unit is due to the result of directives from the brain. The brain is the overseer- and as a result, the supreme commander. (rofl) I declare that my skeleton is less me than my brain. I'm losing skin cells all of the time- but my identity stays with my brain. My thoughts are collected NOT in my bone marrow- which can be lost, but my brain. I suppose that I elevate the human brain as most important because one canNOT exist in life without it. (Exist meaning being able to ask questions, such as this. To ponder, etc.)
2007-02-23 14:42:44 · answer #1 · answered by chrisser665 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You have a skeleton. It is part of the body. The bones. It is what remains when the rest of your physical body rots away. But YOU are not your body or your skeleton. You are your soul, your spirit, your mind. The you that thinks & feels, the you that is asking this question now. Your brain, also part of your body, is just the temporary home of your "mind" but YOU, your soul will live on forever even after the brain has died with the rest of your body.
2007-02-23 23:06:43 · answer #2 · answered by amp 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your not a Southerner and to way out their. to be a Yankee.and Yankees or totally weird and strange .But I do have a skeleton I bought at an old mans shop out in the country years ago , & an old copper coffin.Yes .My body is part skeleton, OK. so?
Soul is eternal.It doesnt NEED a skeleton.or a brain or anything other then what it is.
2007-02-23 22:45:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the philosophy that I am not a body that has a soul; I am a soul that has a body--and a skeleton. The body is like a temporary container for the soul. I believe that it wouldn't be possible for us to think about ourselves in such depth if we weren't something besides the body we are contained in. I don't understand how the brain could comprehend itself unless there was something bigger that we use to do so.
2007-03-03 15:11:46 · answer #4 · answered by Colie B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a skeleton within me.
Because i control it with the rest of my body, muscles, nerves, etc, the skeleton does not work on it's own its just like a kind of human coathanger.
2007-03-02 08:49:00 · answer #5 · answered by just me 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with AMP on this one. You are the being not the body. You have a skeleton just like you have a kidney however you are you the spirit the I, the being not the body. AMP said it better and I agree. She nailed it.
2007-02-23 23:13:48 · answer #6 · answered by hatguy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe that I am a living walking skeleton.
2007-03-03 12:07:51 · answer #7 · answered by bornfree 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could say my skeleton has me - it's the foundation on which I hang as an artefact, an assembly of other differentiated but interdependent parts. And in that edifice there is my mind, which is the "me" that percieves myself as an entity, and all relationships. We define ourselves largely by what we define as "other", and how we percieve relationships.
2007-02-23 22:44:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have (possess) a skeleton. It is part of your body - your human body. You, yourself, are the 'being' part of the 'human being'. Your body's species is human.
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2007-02-28 11:19:35 · answer #9 · answered by Costy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a skeleton with a live covering.
2007-02-23 22:45:12 · answer #10 · answered by whrldpz 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋