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Originally Posted by Radical  Let us take an example. Suppose you are healthy today. Then one day your hand gets cut off. You recovered and after that you will still feel that you have the same central entity “I” within you. You will say “my hand got cut off but I did not die”. So hand is not “I”. You will have same perception of “I” before and after the accident when your hand got cut off. Take another example, suppose you got a heart transplant and after your recovery you will say that I have now different heart but I am still alive. Here again your perception of “I” is still same. You still have same habits. You have all your memory still intact. “I” still is same before and after heart transplant. |
How do you know this? Has your hand been cut off? Have you had a heart transplant? I've heard of many cases where, after an organ transplant, people develop habits or tastes for food or remember things related to the person who donated the organ to them. If you truly believe this and want to convince people of it, you need more solid foundations than 'This is how I believe things are'. More to the point, while I have no problem with people presenting different ideas and having different beliefs (and, in fact, I encourage it), I don't believe in trying to force it down people's throats and make them beleive it (especially hard if your logic's shaky). IMO, this only makes people reject it more. I say this with the experience of someone forced to attend a catholic school for several years which led to my conclusion that it's all just a really entertaining historical story (no offence to any catholics/christians out there btw). I'm sure it's real to some people, but we each choose our reality, perhaps not consciously, but belief is a choice still.
Anyway, I could go on about this subject for ages, but I think i've made the main points.