Is the Kool-Aid Man the jar or the liquid?

[JackFish]

Is the essence of the Kool-Aid Man in the jar or liquid?

 

[CanobieFan]

He's the jar, the liquid is his sweet, sweet...... blood.

 

[Inverting_Thrills]

The jar has the arms, legs, and face on it.

 

[JackFish]

The liquid has the face on it

 

[Indy]

This is like asking if the essence of person is the blood and guts that keeps them alive, or the skin and bones that holds the blood and guts together and protects it. You can't have one without the other.

But since we're a shallow, superficial society, the answer is clearly the jar.

 

[JoshC.]

This is like asking if the essence of person is the blood and guts that keeps them alive, or the skin and bones that holds the blood and guts together and protects it.

Surely the essence of person is "thought", "the conscious" or whatever you want to call it? The neurological impulses that make us live, act and survive is the essence of person. The blood, guts, skin and bone is just the physical vessel which holds it together.

I see it more like a house is a building with bricks, concrete, etc., but a home has something more to it.

So the Kool Aid man is the full package. He is the liquid and the glass. But what makes the essence of the Kool Aid man is different. What is the analogous thing of neurological impulses and waves for the Kool Aid man? The swishing of liquid? The technology that makes the pixels on the screen move?

I went a bit too deep and meta, didn't I?

 

[Niles]

He gets up each morning and picks his flavour

 

[JackFish]

He gets up each morning and picks his flavour

but he still has water in him at the beginning

 

[RcTmix]

but he still has water in him at the beginning

Yeah. From the shower. Fills himself every morning.