This is a little puzzling, its based on a thing i read in a book the other day. If you think about it, you don't have a head. what see in the mirror and what other people see is light reflections, and what you can feel as your head are merely sensory stimuli. So, how can you prove that you do actually have a head?

by hitting it with a brick.

But that is sensory stimulation. The only way to prove it is to measure it's displacement, then you will see there is SOMETHING there.

This thread is stupid.

I agree.

Chop it off with a large knife, and give it someone else to look at. Or that cannibal guy in Germany. He can tell you what it tastes like.

I think you couldn't give it to him. You'd be dead.

Yes, this is a stupid thread.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), The Bacchae, circa 407 B.C.

I'm sure Euripides did not intend to suggest that anyone who calls someone a fool, is foolish.

rmp2000v21 said in post # :

This is a little puzzling, its based on a thing i read in a book the other day. If you think about it, you don't have a head. what see in the mirror and what other people see is light reflections, and what you can feel as your head are merely sensory stimuli. So, how can you prove that you do actually have a head?

 

simple, have major eye surgery where they pop your eye ball out onto a spoon, take a peek at yourself then, and yes, some of it is only done with local anaesthetic

Now, now, let's not gross out the little children. Be civil!

Yuck!

You are not a little child.

Not a little one.

We took blood in Biology once, I almost passed out.

Someone told me that if you didn't go into shock when your head got cut off, then you could live a couple of hours. I don't see how, without a brainstem??

Took blood? You mean in another animal, or you?

We pricked our fingers to test our blood type. I am kinda...not good with that kind of stuff. So I conveniently lost my permision slip and never got to do it, Darn! But I was in the room, and I really didn't feel good!

-Demosthenes- said in post #16 :

Someone told me that if you didn't go into shock when your head got cut off, then you could live a couple of hours. I don't see how, without a brainstem??

That was tested, but of course, there is nothing to tell your lungs to breathe or your heart to beat, so you die.

 

-Demosthenes- said in post #18 :

We pricked our fingers to test our blood type. I am kinda...not good with that kind of stuff. So I conveniently lost my permision slip and never got to do it, Darn! But I was in the room, and I really didn't feel good!

If you had a more serious injury, would you look at it and just pass out?

Probably. If there was like a bone sticking out, then I would be on the floor.

And, probably, cause more serious damage to yourself, like bashing your head in.

Yeah, just thinking about it makes me a little woosy.

I wouldn't like to see it myself, too!

Bones aren't meant to be seen.

I always pull topics o/t.

They really aren't meant to be seen, unless you are idssecting something. Even then, that's not what they are meant for.

This thread was stupid anyway, who cares?