The book said that the brain will veiw a situation and choose the right way to act.. Basicly your brain tells you when to be happy, when to be angry, when to be afraid.. Then maybe the real person, isn't the body at all. But the brain, like a person in a robot, the robot is just a shell a face, the real thing that makes the robot is the person inside.. Would this make the brain the person? And not the shell it thrives in?
2007-06-27 08:59:06 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The brain is where the mind or 'soul' resides, but it has to work with the body to function or do anything. Think of it as the computer in the robot, not a person in a robot suit.
2007-06-27 09:54:27 · answer #1 · answered by shmux 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are arguments to carry the issue in both directions.
After all, if you lose a toe, you are still YOU. So too with any number of other parts. Even hearts, lungs, and blood can be replaced with machines without drastically and intrinsically alterating a person's identity, behaviour, and so on. But this is not true of the brain. So there are some people who think of the brain as YOU.
Some even take it one step farther. They say it's not the brain, but what the brain is DOING that is you. The signals going back and forth that cause the decisions to be made. They identify YOU, then, with a kind of energy the moves around in the brain. Some even go deeper and say that it is some kind of a immaterial soul that motivates that energy.
But some go the other way. Yes, if you lose a toe you are still more or less the same, but it DOES have an effect on how you think of yourself. For that matter, the clothes you wear (or don't) can effect how your brain handles information, as can the room you're in and the other things around you.
All these things play into how you think and do things... maybe not as much as missing a piece of your brain might, but they are still a part. Proponents of this idea would say that you are not only your brain and body, but that everything around you with which you interact (and maybe even the entire universe) is part of YOU.
Which one of those various people YOU are is... well, it's up to you! Peace.
2007-06-27 16:11:56 · answer #2 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The brain is just the intellect portion.
Emotion comes from the solar plexus.
When we are very young, we react from the emotional level of ourselves. Like hunger, we cry, if we are disappointed, we cry, we react instead of act.
As we grow older, we learn to use the intellectual portion of the being to make decisions.
Each person chooses to be happy, angry or sad. Two people faced with the same life changing situation will not react the same, it is all a matter of perception. It is within your power to CHOOSE all things.
The brain is no more than a storage facility while on the physical plane, but it is not the only facility in operation.
We are complex and multi facated beings. Think of the body as a carriage, the mind as the driver, and the horse as the personality. And when we leave this plane of existance, the soul will go on, not needing any of these.
2007-06-27 16:18:16 · answer #3 · answered by Alex 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The brain is a machine, filled with chemical reactions that in some sense acts like the controls, the buttons to drive the vehicle. But it's still just part of the vehicle. It happens to be the part responsible for the majority of our emotions in addition to our interpretation of those emotions. Scientist recently discovered that the heart has it's own brain, which can actually override the controls of the larger brain within our skulls.
The ultimate driver of the vehicle, the heart and the brain is what religious text typically refer to as the soul. Quantum physics has started to refer to this entity within us as "the Observer." This part of us requires a higher consciousness, a consciousness that operates beyond our ordinary emotional responses.
2007-06-27 16:13:34 · answer #4 · answered by livemoreamply 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no...the brain is not the person....brain is having limbic nervous system which decides upon the decisions and brain could not be considered the person as it is just a part of the body... and only few facts about brain were invented...yet to go more...i think by seeing the brain's functions, other organs may be Little inferior to it's pride.....
2007-06-27 16:36:02 · answer #5 · answered by kumar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes the brain is the person. The body can feel sensations, but it is the brain that tells you how to interpret them. Emotions are from the brain.
2007-06-27 16:27:42 · answer #6 · answered by treebird 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes the body and brain are only vessels in which we insert our conciousness.
It is the only way in which our energy can interact with this world and its "objects"
What is different about the robot is that we tell it what to do it doesn't have the freedom to choose what to do on its own.It is previously programmed to interact with other objects.
I guess you could call our bodies a prison in which we are trapped yet the body acts freely according to our thoughts. Its all a concrete vivid illusion.
2007-06-27 16:10:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
More or less. You think with your brain, it decides how you act, how you are, what you do, what you believe. The body is a shell--a vessel for the brain to act in. I agree with this hypothesis.
2007-06-27 16:28:35 · answer #8 · answered by Ava-Marie Germaine 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no it is ones soul and it may well live within the brain
2007-06-27 16:02:58 · answer #9 · answered by Ibredd 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋