I showed a simple, logical method

that can enable us to see

that the "I" is not the physical body.

If you haven't yet seen the video "who am I?"

and the video "what is consciousness?"

I recommend that you see them first.

To determine whether the "I" is the body,

we performed a very simple mental experiment.

We imagined

that we had lost a part of the body,

such as the palm,

and we asked ourselves

if we were still ourselves,

or whether we were someone else.

And indeed,

the obvious answer

is that even without my palm I remain myself.

I may feel different about myself

and may be less capable of doing certain things,

but I will still remain who I am.

In other words,

the palm is mine, but it is not me!

It is also clear that the thought experiment

is eventually an assisting tool for us.

The only ones who can give a definite answer

to the question in the experiment

are those who have actually lost

lost their palm or any other part of their body

and found out

that they are still themselves.

However,

because I really do not recommend

removing parts of our body

in order to answer that question,

we would settle doing it mentally.

The goal of the experiment

is to try to eliminate

as many parts of our body as possible

and examine

whether we are still us

or whether we are someone else...

In this way we could determine

if we are the body.

I apologize for using unpleasant examples,

such as the loss of body parts,

but I believe it is worth it

if that is what will enable you to gain,

the significant insight

that "I am not the physical body".

You can go very far

with this mental experiment,

because nowadays,

thanks to modern medicine and science,

people can lose almost any organ of the body,

and still remain alive

to report that they are still themselves.

For example,

there are countless people who underwent

a heart transplant.

There is even a handful of people

living without a heart at all,

surviving thanks to an implanted blood pump,

and they testify

that they remain themselves.

"No, I don't have a heart..."

"I feel exactly the same"

"So the heart isn't the seat of the emotion"

"is that what you tell us?"

"Yes, the seat of the emotions is in the brain"

"it is scientifically proven"

However,

at some point

in the mental experiment

we encounter a difficulty

when we try to imagine ourselves

without the brain.

One of the reasons for this

is that the removal of a person’s brain

results in instantaneous death,

which makes it impossible for him to testify

whether he is still himself.

Please note,

that this doesn't necessarily mean

the "I" is the brain.

There are other possibilities.

One possibility

is that the "I" is a product of the brain

or that it is carried within it,

just as there is a difference

between a hardware and a software.

When the hardware is destroyed,

the software is destroyed as well,

but they are not the same.

Another possibility is that the "I"

is separate from the brain,

and that the brain is just a device

through which the "I" manifests itself.

This is similar to a radio receiver

playing music.

The music is not inside the radio,

but in the electromagnetic signal in space.

The radio only allows music to be expressed

in the form of sound waves.

If the radio is destroyed,

the music won't be destroyed,

and it could continue to be expressed

as sound wave

through another radio receiver.

In the video "who am I"

we concluded that the "I" is not the psyche,

but consciousness.

By the way, we reached this conclusion

independently from the question

whether the "I" is the body or brain

We know that many parts of the brain

are responsible for physical and mental activities

that are not related to consciousness itself,

such as:

controlling muscles,

digestion,

heart-beat,

sensory processing,

thinking, feeling, etc.

I do not know what part of the brain

is responsible for the existence

or the manifestation of consciousness

— if at all —

but, if we removed

all the parts of the brain

that are unnecessary

for the existence of consciousness,

perhaps we would be left

with a small portion of the brain,

a small group of cells,

responsible for the existence of consciousness,

and then

we could proudly announce:

"That is who I am..."

To me it seems a little bit weird,

but, hey, who knows?

We may never have a definite answer.

We now know that we are consciousness,

but does this mean that we are only a

product of some neural structures,

or do we have an existence

that is separated from them,

and these structures are only the antenna

that allows us to connect to the body...

At the present moment,

I do not have the answer -

so, I'm leaving you and your personal discernment

to figure out what you believe is the truth.

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