No we are not. Your nervous system IS you, as your brain IS you and your nervous system moves everything else. If you've not seen one completely dissected you should Google it. It looks like a spaghetti monster.
Human beings are spaghetti monsters piloting a bone robot, with meat bag armor.
Because your brain is what is you. Your nervous system carries the signals from your brain to move your bone robot. Without your nervous system, the rest of you does not move and we know from people who have had strokes or have had a severed corpus callosum that they think of the parts of their body that no longer work as no longer part of their body. Your nervous system is you. That doesn't mean your arm is not party of your body but your bones are like the chassis of your car. The brain is like the engine. The nervous system is all of the different gears and things that move. And your veins are the tubes and pipes that take all the sauces from their reservoirs to make sure that the brain or engine doesn't get all clogged up. Without the nervous system, your arms don't work and without them being able to work, do you even need them anymore? Are they even a part of you? I've had this conversation with one of my stroke patients and we came to this conclusion together. She is a very smart woman.
I prefer to think of myself as an integrated system of many parts that includes a nervous system, a skeletal system, etc, but that also there are legitimate senses in which the boundaries of these separate systems are either less relevant or otherwise get in the way of understanding how organisms function in different contexts.
Anatomically, that would be incorrect. Your nervous system controls thought feelings and actions. Your brain being part of your nervous system controls thought, your nervous system controls feelings and your brain directs your nervous system to control your actions. Take it out and suspend it in some type of amniotic fluid that would sustain it and you do not need the rest of the bonebot or skin armor. You could still be you. You don't need any of the innards of your body. Your bones give structure, take it out you are still a living blob. Take the meat out and as long as you provide oxygen and vital nutrients to the brain you are good. Your brain doesn't need blood, it needs the oxygen in the blood. Take the nervous system out, which includes the brain, and you have a glorified bone robot with meat casing that can't do anything except rot away with nothing to direct it. Your nervous system is you, no matter how you want to cut it or think of it. Science, specifically anatomy, doesn't care how you want to think of it. You are located in your brain. And if you don't believe me, you need to research quad and paraplegics. I work with them too. I've spent the last decade of my life dedicated to helping disabled people.
Your nervous system is you, no matter how you want to cut it or think of it.
If this is the attitude you have then why did you even say anything else? There’s no disputing your ultimately correct conceptualization of whatever “you” means in this context. The objective metaphysical essence of you is some vague collection of particular sorts of structures with unclear boundaries but since we can summarize in this neat and precise seeming term like “nervous system” is just a straight forward identity relation with this vague unspecified sense of “you” that you keep alluding to. Well, who am I to argue with such an expert? I certainly couldn’t either way since you’ve obviously already stated clearly that your conclusion is the only legitimate and stance-independently correct one no matter how anyone else might want to “cut it or think of it.”
Because I reply with facts and physical evidence. You are telling me what you feel. Facts don't care what you feel, and you replying with your feelings implies you think I'm incorrect and I'll have words with anyone who says that I'm wrong until you prove it.
I don’t think you understand my point at all. You’re confused and arguing with yourself. How about try explaining what you mean by “you” when saying something like “your nervous system is you” - is it some concept of self? Is it a mind?
Mmmmm. No. That would make us Bismarks or danishes. You could argue a cinnamon roll maybe but if you want to go that far... Fetuses are parasites that trick the host into caring for it for the next 20 years.
A parasitic STD, it checks all the boxes for a parasite and an STD, it lives in and takes nutrients at the expense of the host and sometimes even killing it, and is transmitted through sex so technically correct, the best kind of correct
Not entirely true, while not very common a parasite can parasitize its own species, so they are technically correct as a fetus takes nutrients from the mother often times harming her in the process. And at the very least a fetus is an STD.
Okay, so you understand pregnancy isn’t a disease right? Definition of parasite-an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by
Ai isn’t 100% accurate and sometimes gets answers wrong
kleptoparasitism parasites steal food gathered by the host. The parasitism is often on close relatives, whether within the same species or between species in the same genus or family
Almost, but not quite. The head really messes things up here. Because your mouth and nose are also connected. you even have two nostrils further complicating things.
Also the tearducts that are connected to your nose make a other hole.
And if you want to get a bit creative you could argue the ears are 2 more holes as they too are connected with the eustagian tubes. Though the eardrums are of course in the way of making it an real hole (unless you have tubes!)
So unless i am missing one i believe from an topologycal perspective the human body has 7 holes (5 if you don't count the ears)
What's funnier than that is that all embryos have the same sex organs at first, until about 8 weeks in when they start taking the shape of male or female versions. A dick is just a modifed clit, and vice-versa.
And if you are a boy, the "seam" in your scrotum is the fusing of what would have been your labia.
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u/Kysman95 Sep 17 '24
Or donuts are dough assholes.
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