Being the Master of Your Vehicle

This is a reference to the concept of being more concerned for the passenger occupying the shells called "our" bodies as opposed to placing primary focus on the shell, which everyone knows will eventually stop functioning and rot.

Everything that you can see is something that will cease to exist as you conceptualize it. The things that you can not see have no cause to cease to exist. Your passenger, your soul, is one example.

Imagine yourself lying still in a very comfortable bed. Now imagine each of your senses fading away completely. First your sight, then hearing, taste, smell, and lastly feeling. You can't feel the comfortable bed beneath you. You're just there, experiencing nothing external to your body. Nevertheless, with all of your sensors off, your brain hypothetically, would let you know that you still exist. This "you" that can still engage in a self assuring monologue does not have any physical properties and can not be seen. So it falls into the category of things that have no cause to cease to exist. This is your passenger. It is obviously more valuable than the shell that it exists in, because it's immortal. Yet it is normally ignored.

The ultimate proof for the cynic will be when the demise of the muscle called the brain is added to the above mental exercise. Their theory is that this would be the end of the game. But if their theory is incorrect, their former passengers will still have to exist somewhere!

So is your vehicle driving you or are you in control of it? Should you appease your body, which will be a memory in 70 or 80 years, or your soul, which will require a home forever?