Re:Decapitated Worms Regrow Heads, Keep Old Memories
by gumby on Saturday January 13, 2018 @07:29PM
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Indeed, to remove the body from the important part — the head.
Likewise a “head transplant” always seems like a weird thing to discuss. It’s really (from my PoV) a “body transplant.” Unless you’d be happy receiving a head transplant from me :-)
Re:Decapitated Worms Regrow Heads, Keep Old Memories
by gumby on Sunday January 14, 2018 @12:59AM
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OK, I reconsidered slightly my response to you (but can’t edit any more). The construct “a decapitated body” doesn’t sound odd to me, but “He was decapitated” does sound odd.
Re:Decapitated Worms Regrow Heads, Keep Old Memories
by hateduser2 on Saturday January 13, 2018 @07:54PM
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The head is the larger whole just not physically. Conceptually.
Re:Decapitated Worms Regrow Heads, Keep Old Memories
by falsprofet on Saturday January 13, 2018 @08:45PM
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Historically the soul was seen sitting in the heart or the diaphragm, the chest basically, as far as I know. Because the torso exhibits features looking like a face (nipples as eyes and so on) which works to scare animals, at least. Therefore, as far as there is a concept, its should be stronly tied to the torso, from a developmental perspective. Decapitation is a rather archaic practice, anyway.
I disagree that "we mostly consider the head when talking about people". We might mostly consider the face when talking about identity, but what specifically we consider in a person is context-dependent.
Also, "decorporation" would indeed suggest the removal of the body – but from what? "Decapitation" makes sense because the head is a part of the body. "Decorporation" would require the body to be removed from a larger whole, if it's to follow the same latinate prefix pattern.