Creepypasta: Deprivation
It's interesting, how much of the human body is redundant. You can more or less live normally without one lung, one kidney, two-thirds of your liver, significant portions of your intestines, and half of your brain.
If you go into bits that you want to keep but don't need to survive, pretty much all you need to live is your heart, a lung, most of your brain, and enough of your digestive system to extract nutrients and remove waste. Everything else can be pared away or removed and you can keep going.
Of course, it isn't a very satisfactory life. You'd have no senses, no way to move or act on your surroundings. Your life would be very short without being hooked to a feeding tube, and very uncomfortable without some means to carry away your waste products. It would be a painful, hellish existence.
Or would it?
Societies throughout history have taught that the only way to attain true knowledge is to cut off the outside world, that experiencing the world around you detracts from the quest for enlightenment. What would happen if someone had literally no way to interact with the material world, left alone with himself and his thoughts?
Perhaps, cut off from the world of flesh, that person would be able to extend his thoughts and self outside of his physical body, out into the spiritual aspect. Freed from the containment of mortal skin and bone, he could access minds and machinery on the innermost level, thereby allowing communication with the world of flesh without being part of it.
With the invention of computers, this would be even easier. Now that person could enter the computer itself, manipulating its dataflow to allow instant communication via the Internet.
This sounds like insanity, I know.
But do you have proof I'm actually at a keyboard?