We had an interesting discussion in class today, I don't think anyone but me actually got it... Here is what I typed up afterwards.... > When be begin to challenging the existence of our consciousness, we must exist, for if we did not exist, then we would not exist to make the challenge. > When we define ourself as sentient beings, do we define ourselves as our physical body? Or we do we define ourself as a conscious entity that inhabits out body? If we define ourselves as a body, what happens when we reproduce ourselves on a cellular level? We are not the person we were born as. Also, what happens as you lose parts of your body? If you lose a limb, or even cut yourself, you are losing part of your body, what you define as your “consciousness” If you cut yourself, do you lose part of your being? > What part of your physical appearance is your “being” if you lose part of your body, you don’t define yourself as certain parts. For example, if you cut off an arm, you think of the arm as just an arm, while you think of yourself as a person or “conscious being” who is simply missing an arm. However, when a person is dead, they are thought of as just a body of a person. While some people will claim that their “being” is a nonmaterial, we still will define an “anchor” that resides in our materialistic body. For there must be some part that when you remove the rest, you define it as a person missing what you removed, but the part you have removed is not an entity in it’s own self. Please post comments, also, could you post an anwser to a poll i'm taking. What shape do you think of your Consciousness (thinking space) as?