Body-worlds

[blueerica]

HAHA!

You know, I'm still thinking about my muscles.

The IMAX movie has me pondering my digestive system. GLURP GLURP!

[FEJ]

I understand what your saying iSm, and I do like the term S.A.M.P., but I disagree. (And I am not trying to invalidate your thoughts or feelings, just show mine also)
I thought it was amazing that they could show all of those things. I thought it was facinating to see what a hemmorage looked like in cross section or an actual anurysm. Also the whole exhibit on the embryo to child, especially the mother was really informative. things that pictures and video do not do justice.

For me, The body is just the vessel in this part of the journey......



or not.



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.

I remember an old addage, eat healty, exercise, die anyway...
Might as well enjoy what I can, do what I can, and not worry about whats out of my control.

I get more scared of the "self" part in the S.A.M.P., that is, worry more about others harming me than my own body failing.

I think the body is a wonderful mechanism, inside and out.

[blueerica]

I really enjoyed my visit to Body Worlds. I was particularly interested in the "plastination" procedures. How they do it, is just amazing, IMO. It was nice to see it actually in someone, as opposed to the start plastic models I got in school, or the cat dissected in phys. anatomy.

Doesn't mean I can't trip out, though...

[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.

[MerryPrankster]

The BW show sounds fascinating to me -- I love all your different opinions on the show too! I'd really like to see it. But I checked their web site and I see that it will be in Chicago through Sep. '05. Wow, that's seems like such a long time. I wish they would have extended the tour on the west coast. Maybe up to SF and Seattle? I wonder if they will bring it out west again?

[blueerica]

I bet it'll be going around for a while. It's what all the cool science museums are vying for this season

The thing about this is that something like BW really can only get better with time. As fascination and interest grow, so does our knowledge and applications of said knowledge. And to try and grasp the psychological and philosophical implications of this show.. Just AMAZING!

I'm so glad I went, and I highly recommend this show to anyone.

[FEJ]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

....or the soul-animated meat puppet? It's going to be the stuff of my ruminations for a little while.

it is my daily rumination, kind of keeps me in check..

[Nephythys]

Originally Posted by Monorail Man

Well, if your not going now, Body Worlds 2 is coming, on Jan 28.

Bodyworlds 2?

Clarify?

I have been checking these exhibits on line for years- I was so excited to get to go to the first US exhibit. (plus I got to meet many of you!!) So now it goes to Chicago? But what is BW2?

I hope it comes to CO- I would love to take some of my friends and family that did not get to go last November.

[Not Afraid]

We got tickets to go on Friday evening. We're seeing the IMAX too. I hope that was a good choice.

[Nephythys]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

We got tickets to go on Friday evening. We're seeing the IMAX too. I hope that was a good choice.

It is. Rose and I really enjoyed the movie- it flows very well into the exhibit.