is it normal to look at your body as a computer? Options

[x_itchy_b_x]

is it normal to look at ones body as a computer? sometimes i feel like a robot... well i am sorta.
Ok so im a giant bio computer that takes in information by my sensory inputs, like sight sound taste ect. it just takes in information then my brain puts it together in my head through chemical reactions. my heart is a pump to circulate oxygen, my veins are like a fuel system. my nervous system are the wires used to communicate to the brain and tell me whats going on. i look at my hand and know obviously its a bunch of bones and veins and muscles. ive heard from certain religions that the body is just a vehicle for the soul, the true essence of yourself. and food and things on earth are kinda like software... and when i put (load) them in my computer i get different results.. lol like vitamins and drugs (legal ones like caffeine ect,)

i don't really have a point with this lol, but does anyone else think about stuff like this?

[BloodyStupidDave...]

i don't really have a point with this lol, but does anyone else think about stuff like this?

Yup. If you really want to blow your mind, read around the subject of the ghost in the machine, an idea first put forward by Gilbert Ryle and René Descartes. The central idea is that many workings of the mind can be described as clockwork yet no matter how far you delve, there is always a ghost-like kernal that seems to defy being described as purely mechanical (the spirit, soul, consciousness).

Do you have a background in either social science or computers?

See also: Descartes' Myth, The Concept of Mind, Dualism, God the Watchmaker
Category: Behavioural theory, Philisophy of Mind

This post has been edited by BloodyStupidDavey: Jan 23, 2007 - 3:03 PM