pg22 What is the reality of objects in general? Water falls as an example – Virtual concept. (part 3 of 3)

Human body is also a virtual concept 

Now, we see human body is just like water falls.  As we know the cells in a human body is refreshed every seven years, if we fast play a 100-year-life history of a human body in one minute, we would notice: 1. The body is getting older during the course, 2. The physical content of the body is refreshing itself just like water drops flowing through a water falls.  Thus, every statement about water falls above applies to a human body. 

What is the reality of a human body?  A human body is a concept.  The actual content of the body, i.e. the cells or molecules in the body, has never been the same.  It is ever changing all the time, as they are always different cells which flow through the body.  At most, it is a shape, a shape of a human body.  But even a shape is not an object, but a concept.  However, it is always said to be “the same” body.  The body exists only because we recognize it as an object.  If we insist on defining an object by its “physical content”, then the body does not exist because it has no fixed physical content (only cells, rather than the body, exist). 

If we wish to consider the body as an “object”, then definition of “object” must be “a concept”, not its real content.  In other words, whether the body exists as an object depends on what “object” means:  

- It may exist only if we choose to recognize the body as a concept.  But it is nothing but a virtual concept, not a real thing. 

- On the other hand, if we choose to recognize objects by its physical content, then the body doesn’t exist.  There is not a thing by the name of “human body”.  There are only cells or molecules.  Only cells or molecules are recognized objects, nothing else. 

Because human bodies are virtual concepts (i.e. a non-existent object) rather than real physical entities, they don’t follow physics laws, even though they don’t violate physics laws.  Asking if they follow physics laws is like asking if stocks and bonds follow physics laws, as they are just concepts, not real physical entities. 

We’ll talk about the illusory view of objects and the consequential problems next. 

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