Body-worlds

[innerSpaceman]

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.

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.