pg12 What is "I"? (part 1 of 2)

What is the identity “I”?  This question may be tackled in four different ways. 

1. “I” am not my body.  When asked, “What is a man?”  Many may answer, “A man is just the material body of a human being.  There is nothing other than the material body in a human being.”  If that is the case, then why do we say a man is dead when the body still exists and is lying there?  If material body is all there is to a human being, there is no reason to claim he is dead since the matter, the material body, is still there.  How can one differentiate a living body from a dead body?  Obviously there is some difference.  The only way we can properly describe the difference is to say, “A living body is a man with mind/spirit intact, while a dead body is a man whose mind/spirit has given up control of his body.  The identity of a man is actually the mind/spirit, rather than the body.” 

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