Quote Originally Posted by LegioXXXUlpiaVictrix
@Byzantine Prince: It's your own definition of who WE are. I happen to define it to be the organism our DNA has created for encapsulating it and helping it to reproduce..
Well it's accepted by almost all philosophers. I can't think of any philosopher that says what you said, because it's blatantly wrong.


Quote Originally Posted by LegioXXXUlpiaVictrix
The "phalacy" is about our disagreement of what a human is, i.e. a definition, axiom or premise, depending on what you'd like to call it. Therefore, what we are really discussing is whether or not it's sane to define a human as it's brain.
I didn't. I said a human is his essence. The brain is what holds the essence, its shell if you like. That's why when the brain stops working you die.

Quote Originally Posted by LegioXXXUlpiaVictrix
In THAT debate, which we can hold once you've admitted that it's the definition that's different and not my logics that are failing
Your logic is bad.

Quote Originally Posted by LegioXXXUlpiaVictrix
I'd like to point out that a huge portion of our nerve system is located in the body. You can't feel anything from a woman unless you have your senses, and the senses are 1. the sensory nerve ends, 2. the "wires" and "gates" (if we compare it to a digital circuit, which works very well as it's almost the same principles), 3. the brain. Therefore, you need to keep the sensory nerve ends in order to keep the emotions, which means you'll need at least a portion of the body. But the sensory nerve ends won't give the same signals if they aren't covered by tissue similar to that of a normal body. Thus you need to either add this tissue, or change the nerves, possible also up in the brain. Many of the nerve ends, actually a majority of the brain, is used for things such as balance, movement and things that are useless without a body. The sensory parts for movement and similar are also not working normally without a brain. Finally, a person who doesn't move and act, things that require a body, will see the world from a different perspective. Also, if your senses aren't put in the same angles as they are on a human with a body, you'll also experience the world differently, and your brain must be changed in order to react in the same way on the environment. I don't see how you could remain the same in the brain but without having a body, without starting to think in a very different way.
I don't see any logic here. Emotions are not dependent on feeling the world.