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  • In the video "who am I"

  • 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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In the video "who am I"

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