this is in reference to this post but tangentially and idk but "the body is an inconvenient vessel for the brain" is kinda relatable but not, like, in a rationalist way about Pure Intellect or whatever. like the vibe I'm getting from these people is early teenage redditor atheist iykyk so it's not about that but I kinda feel the inconvenient vessel you know? idk
It's just bodies are difficult to change and to accommodate for, even putting aside societal issues, which itself is already a huge aside. Even some of the smallest issues are immutable and inconvenient. I often see people going on about how doing An Exercise will change your life but the reality is no exercise is going to solve migraines forever, I'll have to take allergy pills for the rest of my life, my friend will always get upset stomachs if they accidentally eat too much dairy, and I'll never have a tail. Even the things you can change are frankly a nuisance to do, from fixing your posture to gaining or losing weight. Like I hypothetically could get ripped ig but the process of doing so would absorb an enormous amount of my time and life I could otherwise spend doing more of all of the things I enjoy in life, because in the end some bodies are simply different from other bodies in how they'd like to be by default. Have I mentioned I'll also never have a tail?
I wouldn't say that my brain is the primary passenger of this vessel, assuming that's some metonymous stand-in for Intellect and Reason and whatnot, but it is the vessel of the me in it, who would like to experience the many activities of life that both directly involve and don't at involve the physicality of this vessel whose wallpaper is harder to change than a computer. (How does hair just keep growing.) Of all the vessels the body is the most inconvenient one because it's like on the opposite end of the ship of Theseus, whose planks for some reason are constantly being swapped out for some philosophical excercise
also fuck allergies I want that shit crispr'd right out of me