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Originally Posted by ubergeek42
Either way , I am amazed at the wonders of the human body. If I sit and worry about what can co wrong, and nothing does, thats not really living, is it.
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Oh, hehe, don't get me wrong. The exhibit was fascinating above all else, and I certainly don't (and don't intend to) go around worrying about potential illness or fatality.
I was just posting my rather visceral reactions to the knowledge which I already had being exhibited so strikingly. I've studied anatomy and biology quite extensively, but I've never seen dissected human cadavers before. I am certainly left with a palpable sense of my mechanics and inner biosphere, which may last a week or a day or the rest of my life for all I know. But I am now uber-conscious of the "me" housed inside this shell of amazing functionality. A functionality that is somehow even more mysterious to me having seen it laid out so tangibly last night.
I am having renewed ponderings on whether my fervent belief that we are beings of energy inhabiting a body is really the certainty I feel it to be ... or whether we are, in fact,
all inside here - - a consciousness produced by this baseball sized brain.
In other words: Which kind of S.A.M.P. are we? The self-animated meat puppet, or the
soul-animated meat puppet? It's going to be the stuff of my ruminations for a little while.