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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think the right analogy would be to say "you are not inside your skull, you are your skull". And I would count this as a more or less correct statement.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Am I my skull? So I get to live as long as my skull is not decayed?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Well, that's the paradox isn't it? We are our minds but somehow we also are our bodies.