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Gwynne Michele
@thecurioushermit
I used the word "meatsuit" in my Neuroethics paper this week. I got an A.
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Kristin Piljay ツ
@kristinpiljay
OMG, did you get that from @wake.eth? It's definitely a wake-ism. Congrats on the A and it sounds like a fascinating class! 50 $DEGEN
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Gwynne Michele
@thecurioushermit
Nope, been using it for YEARS. In the paper, I mentioned that being conscious feels like you're just piloting a meatsuit that doesn't really belong to you 🤣
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wake
@wake.eth
are you familiar with unilateral neglect?
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Gwynne Michele
@thecurioushermit
Am now after a quick google.
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wake
@wake.eth
seemed apropos. sometimes accompanied with bodily neglect. strange cases where people think their legs are, actually, cadaver parts grafted to them. "a cruel joke perhaps, and definitely not my real leg"
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Gwynne Michele
@thecurioushermit
We're studying lots of "weird" cases like that in this class. The sorts of brain damage that causes entirely personality changes, disorders that make it so you can't recognize your family members faces, etc. The brain is really, really weird, but the more we learn about it, the more it opens up all new ethical questions.
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Kristin Piljay ツ
@kristinpiljay
If you haven't yet, you should check out books by Oliver Sacks. i think you'd love them. I've read just about every book he's written. One of the books is titled The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat (and yeah, that happened).
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