Everything is metaphysical. All of our notions, all of our thoughts, all of our perceptions come via transducers known as senses and some juxtapositioning and synthesis based upon those observations and influences. No one has direct knowledge of universe. Science, properly addressed, deals only with confidence factors. IMHRO (In My Humble Relative Opinion), to the best of my knowledge, the debate as to whether or not a person or their perception of their self is wholely physical or requires some metaphysical component(s) is ridiculous. We are spirits in a spiritual world. A "thing" is only as it seems because a viewpoint that recognizes it is as it is.
Think about it in another way. If you had the choice between not dying or living forever in your current body, what would it be? The choice is very simple to me. I'd be very tired of this life after a mere hundred years. I guess it's a subjective perspective after all. . .
Thats actually very true invisible1. More true than it sounds at first. Especially for people who hate their bodies etc.....
Sheesh, as long as we don't go completely bonkers, another 100 years will give us many options as to what we can do and exactly what we can choose for the expressed form of our bodies. Being tired of your body by then with so many new and continually ever new potentials may seem a bit silly. Here's hoping anyways.
100 years from now would boogle your mind, just as 100 years ago boggled the minds of them back then.
Exactamundo. In otherwords there is no such thing as the physical, it is all just thoughts in our heads. (When I say thoughts in our head it is used as a common expression and does not imply that exactly.) What we label as physicality is a patterning of thought, so to speak. See this simple fact and you are no longer bound by the limits of physicality. It's all in your head....so to speak. _______________________ ARGUMENT FOR MENTAL MONISM In a nutshell: Terms that denote physical things are defined in terms of each other (mass, volume, etc) in a closed discourse. Such terms do not have any ostensive definition to real things. Terms that denote mental things do have ostensive definitions (e.g. defining red qualia). Hence physical terms fail to have any referential meaning, whereas mental terms succeed in doing so. Therefore physical things are fictional and do not really exist. On the other hand, the existence of mental things is proven in every moment of awareness. Ergo reality is mental. QED no. 1.
