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Raymond Tallis takes a good look at himself.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/112/Wh ... g_Embodied

I've never understood the 'problem'.

As far back as I can recall, I've always worked from the idea that 'I' am the flesh...I see no evidence of my having an in-dwelling spirit or having a dual nature, and I've never had call to evoke either (or any) explanation for 'me' beyond being 'an animal of particular and peculiar complexity, a complexity resulting in an on-going recursive event (I-ness, self, mind, etc.)'.

I think sometimes folks think too friggin' much, generating problems where none exist.

Philosophy Now wrote:Raymond Tallis takes a good look at himself.

"Describing ourselves as ‘embodied subjects’ shifts the emphasis from explanation to description. By focussing on the experience of bodily existence, we do not so much advance towards solving the mystery of the relationship between our thoughts and the meat of which we are made, as sneak past it."

Describing ourselves as 'animated cabbages' would work just as well, if not better!