i HAVE a brain or i AM a brain?

Answer 1

the latter, but drop the "a brain"

Answer 2

Neither, as parts of your brain may be removed and you will still remain. Having a brain indicates there is something that owns, so where is the owner? The self, both mind and body, is infinitely divisible and yet you will always remain. You may be changed, but everything is life can be reduced to cause and effect (change). You are still the one who is; that process of change.

Ownership is an illusion of the self; ego. Do you own your hand? No, as it can be removed and burned to ash. It isn't you any more then a rock is you. The truth of the matter (in my opinion) is that there is no self, just a process.

Answer 3

I AM…

I have a brain which is different from dog’s brain, cat’s brain, elephant’s brain etc…except human brain. I have a mind that feed thoughts to my brain which resulted from feelings, a driving force for my mind to wonder more about things I perceive and about myself. My mind is the consciousness that operate a superb exceptional computer which is my brain with its intricate wiring of neurons and synapses and computing all the electrical impulses it receive from the billions and billions of cells of my physical body. My brain will stop functioning and be dead one day and the link it has with my mind will be severed. At that time my mind will lose its superb computer so it will be in some sort of a limbo like a consciousness without a feeling to give it a drive to seek answers to the existence of myself. My feeling that will still be somewhere only God knows where but without a mind to give meaning to this new existence of me…..This is a time when my mind is unconscious about the existent of my feeling like wise my feeling too lies dormant also in a sort of limbo in God knows where…. ( Aha ! rubbish ? I for one is not about to come to that conclusion so very easily, Why ? ‘cos a stupid question like What Is What sometimes seem to be kicking in my brain and my mind goes dancing all around to put the kicking at rest…hahahahaaa )

Answer 4

You do not "have" a brain...

You are your entire body, and your brain is just one part of that body...

Your 5 senses "sense" the surrounding environment, then your brain "perceives" that data...then it "senses" that it "perceives" it...
Like holding two mirrors up against each other...
The illusion of your "mind" is the "mirage" area between "sensing" and "perceiving," like a hypothetical line that doesn't exist in reality, on a map. Your "mind illusion" is like that map line. It exists on the map, but not on the ground...
So "you" do not "have" a brain...
You "are" your brain, and everything else that comes with it...

Answer 5

Would you say the activity for your ego is limited to brain activity or do you do more than think. Is the totality of your self ego. Where does this "I" end and its body begin. If death in the 'I' is non-existence and the 'I' dies when its brain dies, it may say 'when my brain dies, I die', but when the heart dies that 'I' dies. Is 'I' its heart or does it have a heart. The possessive predicate 'I have a brain' is not a contradiction for the identity predicate 'I am a brain'.

Answer 6

You are a brain. You brain controlls every movement, thought, emotion, breath, and anything that makes you who you are. Other organs just make it possible for the brain to keep functioning.

Answer 7

I was just discussing this with my sister this afternoon. My position is essentially that our experiences have a large role in making us what we are, despite the undeniable influence of nature. Some argue that there is only now. But everything we know, or think we know, is information that we learned in the past. We must draw upon this information to act in the now. Further, one needs to provide for the future in order to survive or get anything done. More to the point of your question, and please forgive the grusome example, let's say that someone decapitated you and threw your body out a 10th-storey window and you fell on top of a pedestrian. It was the impact of YOU that affected that pedestrian's life. Right? If not, then who? Not me or anyone else. We were joking that it would be good punishment in prisons to put discussions such as this on the PA system. But some of us do think about these things.

Answer 8

Everyone HAS a brain-- it is how you use it that makes you A BRAIN(or a smart person)

Answer 9

I hope you have a brain. You can only be a brain (metaphorically) if you have a brain (literally).

Answer 10

Niether