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Originally Posted by Villages PL
If a brain surgeon removed your brain, dried it, ground it into a powder, and then put the powder back into your head, to what extent would you still be "all there"? There would be nothing missing (just add water) but you would cease to be functional. Would you still be a whole person?
Take a book and grind it ito a powder. Can you read it in powder form? No. What has changed? It no longer functions as a book. Is it still a whole book?
If I could take your car and grind it into a powder, would you be satisfied that you still own a whole car?
So we're talking about how something functions when you change its form. Whole (unprocessed) grain (like whole wheat berries) takes longer to digest and thus tends to keep your blood sugar (and insulin) steady, rather than spiking. So your hunger is more likely to be satisfied for a longer period of time.
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It depends on what you mean by "all there" you would still have the entire contents of your brain so yes you would be "all there" as far as 100% of your brain, just maybe not 100% brain power but you didn't ask that! Same with the car you would still own a "whole car" just in a different form. As far as how something functions when you change forms it depends on what the function is that you are looking for the item to perform. For example water is just as powerful if you change the form into steam it can be used for many different purposes like powering an engine, heating an area, cleaning and etc. or in it's frozen form it can cool other substances and move larger heavier objects and so many other uses. Certainly we could go on and on. Just because something changes form doesn't mean it's not the same or even better depends on the use. Even if you want to talk "whole grain" what if someone is in diabetic shock and needs to raise their blood sugar quickly? then ground "whole grain" would be healthier for them at that moment then unchanged "whole grain". Always dangerous when you don't explore all options and just jump to conclusions.