Can you touch your brain through your nose

Can you touch your brain from sticking something up your nose??

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I believe that this was actually used by the Egyptians, once an important Pharaoh was about to be mummified, they would stick a tool up his nose to get his brain and keep it in a jar. This was done to every organ in the body except for the …

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What test could a human perform today to prove they exist in a real world and not in a virtual world?

Q: The human body inputs data from several senses (sight, sound, smell, taste and touch) through several organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin) which are converted to electrical signals and then sent to the brain via nerves for processing into information.Assuming science progresses sufficiently in the future such that artificial signals could be generated and input directly into the brain to make it believe it was receiving genuine (sight, sound, small, taste and touch) signals, thereby creating a realistic virtual world for the human, who could be a terminally ill elderly person but believe they were a youthful happy healthy person under such virtual simulation.

A: Epistemologically, there is no test to determine whether or not it is a virtual world. However, Hillary Putnam has some interesting thought experiments about being a brain in a vat and experiencing a virtual reality here: http://www.uwichill.edu.bb/bnccde/ph29a/putnam.html . His thought is that if you really were a brain in a vat you wouldnt be having the thought that you were a brain in a vat. I think this can be applied to your question.

Poll: When do you consider a fetus a living life form? Does it affect your decision on abortion?

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A: I lost three babies, at 16 weeks, 18 weeks, and 22 weeks. The babies at 16 weeks and 22 weeks were alive for a few hours after they were born. Anyone who thinks that they aren’t a baby until they are born is so very mistaken. They are living inside of you. I will never be able to understand how someone can allow their baby to be killed before it’s born.

Is an afterlife even possible considering all of our five senses cease with death?

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A: If your soul is capable of seeing, smelling, tasting, hearing, and touching on it’s own, why does it waste it’s time with a body?