Where’s the Animation Coming From?
October 5, 2010 by zachary.triano
In thinking about the philosophical idea of personal identity, I have always worried about the idea concerning what animate us? Although this may not make any sense, what makes us us? What makes you the one who animates your body and me mine? I understand that our brains allow us to think, but it goes further than that: why am I the one moving my body and you the one moving yours? I feel like our soul would be the turtle and our skin the shell; how else would you explain why I animate my body and you yours? What do you all think of this?
2 Responses to “Where’s the Animation Coming From?”
I think we ought to animate ourselves. Imagine how life would be if you were able to animate someone else.
Yeah, I know that, but realy, what makes us alive and a car not alive? I know we are made up of more intricate parts than a car, but if we manufactured a robot, it wouldn’t be alive persay. Couldn’t it be that our body is the shell (like for a turtle) and there is a soul, that animates us and without it, we would be dead?