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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: TheStockStalker who wrote (21820)7/30/2005 3:00:18 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
There are many parts to that post, but just to address one.
It seems to me that the largest part of being an individual is the ability to sense something individually.

A human body is complex enough that there are parts of the body that can sense something independantly of other parts. This is why the doctor taps you on the knee with his rubber hammer. The leg has enough sensors to feel this and move by itself. If there is a gap of time before the leg moves it indicates that the leg did not notice, but that the brain picked up the signal via different pathways and sent a move signal, all of which takes noticable time.

The point is that a leg is not a person. The ability to sense something individually is not sufficent to categorize that thing as a unique individual. I think the statement the ability to sense something individually is on the right track, but still does not adequetly convey the correct distinctions.

TP
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