talking about body images, V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra B. make a fantastic point on Pg 62 of Ch3 in their Phantoms in the Brain book:
"... your body image, despite all its appearance of durability, is an entirely transitory internal construct that can be profoundly modified with just a few simple tricks. It is merely a shell that you've temporarily created for successfully passing on your genes to your offspring."
Wow! imagine that we constructing our image as well. We may not be what we think ourselves to be! So, I don't have to go on a diet or take on plastic surgery; I just need to "reconstruct" myself in a whole new way and just deal with this new me.
Also look at the bottom line of the quote: Apparently, all this fuss is about our genes! Immortality seems to be a topic for the genes and not 'an individual life'.
Very interesting. Any comments?
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