Chronicles of a HeadCase

As a follow up to the Ship of Case blog entry, i would like to sum up just where i was going with it… there were a lot of good responses but the ultimate conclusion of the exercise was to identify that identity had nothing to do with parts. If you had answered that the parts were important as your identity… then you should know that every couple of years every bit of your body has been completely changed to new parts. So if who you are doesn’t reside in the body… maybe the brain?

Throughout history there has always been the notion of an observer within us… the one in the driver’s seat of our existence, but trying to identify where this observer/driver (soul/mind/spirit) resides has always been a mystery.

Well the follow up excercise is about the brain, and if perhaps our mind/soul/spirit/observer reside within the construct of our gray matter. Lets say you are a millionaire who is hospitalized and you may be stuck in that hospital bed for an indefinite amount of time. For argument sake, lets pretend that this is in the future with technology beyond our imaginations. So, instead of being vegi-fied in bed, your family spends millions to have your brain wirelessly connected to a remotely controlled body. What this means is that while your body and your brain residing within it, is stuck in bed, you are experiencing life through this android body (capable of mobility and all the six senses). Where are you? in bed or roaming the streets in the remote control body? (Think about your answer before reading on…)

Ok so many of you may say that you are in the hospital bed, because that is where your brain is, which is the essense of you and storing all your memories and whatever else. Okay, So if thats what you say or feel. Lets split up the brain, left and right lobe of the brain are placed at the two ends of the city and still remotely hooked up to your remote body…. so, where are you now? Please discuss.