I think you have underestimated the importance of recent neurological research for the so-called mind-body problem. In fact, everything we call the personality or the soul cannot exist without the the brain.
Does the soul reside in the body, or is an incorporeal entity that exists in a different dimension to which we lack access. Or should I just bite you when you run by?
Guy has just discovered the apple trees at one corner of his territory. He collects the apples one at a time, takes them to his observation post, and nibbles daintily at them. Picture taken just moments after a Wagnerian cider belch.
You call them ducks, or migratory birds, or just plain birds. Guy calls them terrorists.
Baby toes are so scrumptious that sometimes you have just to set aside the rules and take a nibble.
Attempting to slink by, willing herself to be invisible, but it isn't working. Guy knows that his recent paralysis and heartwarming recovery have not given him any additional rights to pester the cat, but the cat doesn't know that.
