The film, A Glorious Piece of Meat, focuses on our perception of the functions that are controlled by our brains that us human beings believed to have been controlling all along. It is very true that we do not have the ability to direct our heart to beat or our stomachs to digest a meal thus suggesting that we are not really in full control of our body. The human race believes that we are in control of what our body is doing because our perception of awareness seems distinct from our bodily apparatus and we think we are controlling our bodies when in reality we are not. Our brain, the glorious piece of meat, is the part of our bodies that sends messages that instruct us to do things and our bodies react to the messages being transmitted and we do as we are told.. Which brings up a question of whether we originate our thoughts or only direct them? I believe that if our brain is in full control, then we only direct our thoughts, not originate them.
In sum, this goes back to what our perception of our brain and our bodies is. Do we believe that our body and our brain act independently or are they connected and one is directing the other by firing neurons?
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