Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host Corey Muscara. In today's episode we're going to talk about what it means to be human.

And when, if ever, would you be less human?

What would need to change and how would you know.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. D' So what does it mean to be you when you feel into yourself?

So what does it mean to be you?

When you feel into yourself, the felt sense of you of being human, what does that

mean? What comprises who you are, where do you begin and where do you end.

I think we all have a sense of this for ourselves, but it's probably not something we think about too deeply.

But what amount of your body or mind, let's just say the two things that we might most

often characterize as ourselves ourselves like our thoughts or

emotion sensations personality our body etc. What amount of these things

would need to be compromised before you stopped being you.

So would you need to lose an arm let's say?

Would you be any less human, any less you?

What about all of your limbs?

Your face?

What if your face were, was mangled?

Would you still be you?

Your sight? would you still be you?

Your sight?

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