>We're not just physical objects. We are people with identities,
>values, attitudes. and language, and all of those integral elements
>of our lives are the products of social interactions and social
>forces. The banal statement that we have physical bodies does not
>change this basic social fact.
But it's important to remember that we don't *have* physical bodies. Not the way we have a car or an orange soda.
It's not like you can leave your body behind when you go out for some social interaction or, for that matter, when you stay in for social interaction like the kind we're having here.