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by pixl97 1019 days ago
The idea of mind body duality is crazy to me, yet I see so many people kind of stuck on it.

If you take a modern computer controlled car and start changing other parts of it, such as the tires, fuel or even something like a spark plug starting to go bad, the computer in the car has to adjust itself to maintain its performance envelope. Change the system enough and the computer will no longer be able to compensate and likely throw some error codes in your direction.

And the car, compared to the human body, is a much simpler system with much more discrete and well defined parts. The mind/body integration is far more complex. The control systems to maintain homeostasis without ones organs demands killing off the rest of the body are truly something to behold.