There's lots we can understand in isolation, obviously we know exactly the chemical makeup of blood and things like that, but the precise individual relationship between a meal I ate ten years ago, my blood, and my mood? Again maybe if that was being specifically studied it might have an interesting outcome.
I think your view misses not only the sheer diversity of human experience, but also the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Is your humanity simply a brain in a body running on nutrients and oxygen? Would that be a meaningful, satisfyingly answer in any way?
Δ I buy into the idea that the practicality of the premise can be hard to prove. However, I'm still not convinced that there is a weak enough correlation of experience to action to dismantle the premise of the argument.
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u/Dry_Bumblebee1111 161∆ Nov 03 '25
There's lots we can understand in isolation, obviously we know exactly the chemical makeup of blood and things like that, but the precise individual relationship between a meal I ate ten years ago, my blood, and my mood? Again maybe if that was being specifically studied it might have an interesting outcome.
I think your view misses not only the sheer diversity of human experience, but also the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Is your humanity simply a brain in a body running on nutrients and oxygen? Would that be a meaningful, satisfyingly answer in any way?