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Originally Posted by wolf_22
following my premise of the mind/body/soul concept, yes. once the soul is disconnected from the body the mind is either partially inactive or no longer there. thus a part of the person is lost.
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Ok. Once again, you clearly don't understand the question so let me ask one more time.
Can you be made into something less than you actually are or more than you actually are, or into an entirely different thing than you actually are via the application of a philosophical concept?
Your senario does not represent the application of a philosophical concept, it represents the application of a physical brain injury. Do you understand the difference between expressing an idea about a thing and a brain injury? If you want to talk about how you may or may not change if you recieve a brain injury, then start a thread about brain injuries. This thread, however is about philosophical concepts and a brain injury and its aftermath are not philosophical concepts.
Let me break this down into simpler terms for you? Suppose you have a grape sitting on a table. Do you believe that you can change that grape into something more than a grape, or make it less than a grape simply by expressing ideas that you might have about that grape. You can't touch it, you can't crush it, you can't do anything but talk about it. Now. Can you make it into something else simply by talking about it?
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Originally Posted by wolf_22
I can answer the mind/body/soul question based on my own personal view. this extends to other people as well. I do not believe I am the only one with a soul or a body or a mind. I simply think my body is unique, my soul is unlike anyother soul, and thus my mind is different than others in many ways.
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What you believe is irrelavent to other people wolf. As you said, you only get to define yourself and we are hardly objective with regard to ourselves so your assesment of yourself is highly questionable as anyone's assemsment of themselves would be.
This is beside the point however. The question is, can I make you into more than you actually are or less than you actually are or into something entirely different than you are simply by talking about you and expressing my ideas about you. This isn't rocket science wolf.