Well, that’s an interesting one. I can imagine quite enjoying a film like this, in the right mood (I’m sure your saki helped). You’re right that it raises some interesting questions regarding psychosurgery, especially the encoding of memory in body parts. I shouldn’t start writing about this or my comment may be longer than your article, but it’s interesting to remember that even the earliest Christian writers thought of the soul not as some ethereal add-on to the material body, but something that was itself, so to speak, encoded there. Perhaps a body made if other bodies would have some interesting metaphysical properties. I am almost tempted to expect it would. How to find out, though?
Thank you for reading and for your excellent comment.
The sake did make some of the absurdity more tolerable. The dualist view certainly has a long history, and it would be good to read this in the context of Christianity. In short, I doubt how thoughtful the film's writers were about these questions. Still, I think that sometimes, assumptions, zeitgeist, and such are more visible when the creators are not explicitly making an effort to represent something. Instead, it comes from the assumptions they make.
We certainly have experience with organ transplants, and to my knowledge, nothing of this sort is seen... one could maybe think of epigenetic effects in other organisms when they are placed in new environments or of plasticity... but mixing parts of different organisms together... (other than in some plants that are grafted on top of other plants)...
But that is different, maybe, than say an arm...
I do think this is an interesting point, as is the fact that they toy with drilling into one's head to achieve behavioral changes -- not that far off from what some had suggested.
Well, that’s an interesting one. I can imagine quite enjoying a film like this, in the right mood (I’m sure your saki helped). You’re right that it raises some interesting questions regarding psychosurgery, especially the encoding of memory in body parts. I shouldn’t start writing about this or my comment may be longer than your article, but it’s interesting to remember that even the earliest Christian writers thought of the soul not as some ethereal add-on to the material body, but something that was itself, so to speak, encoded there. Perhaps a body made if other bodies would have some interesting metaphysical properties. I am almost tempted to expect it would. How to find out, though?
Thank you for reading and for your excellent comment.
The sake did make some of the absurdity more tolerable. The dualist view certainly has a long history, and it would be good to read this in the context of Christianity. In short, I doubt how thoughtful the film's writers were about these questions. Still, I think that sometimes, assumptions, zeitgeist, and such are more visible when the creators are not explicitly making an effort to represent something. Instead, it comes from the assumptions they make.
We certainly have experience with organ transplants, and to my knowledge, nothing of this sort is seen... one could maybe think of epigenetic effects in other organisms when they are placed in new environments or of plasticity... but mixing parts of different organisms together... (other than in some plants that are grafted on top of other plants)...
But that is different, maybe, than say an arm...
I do think this is an interesting point, as is the fact that they toy with drilling into one's head to achieve behavioral changes -- not that far off from what some had suggested.