A philosophical question of sorts…
How many (and which body parts) prosthetics would be needed to make you a different person? Most people have no issue with people with prosthetic limbs or an artificial heart. But what if you have both? Or what if all your bones were artificial?
What if artificial brains were a thing? Would having a prosthetic/artificial brain and/or head make you a fundamentally different person? Or what if your entire body EXCEPT your brain was artificial? What if you donated your brain to a different person? Would that person still be that person, but with your brain, or would they be YOU…and you had someone else’s body?
Or is it the idea that your brain is what makes you *you* and gives you value/identity an erroneous idea?
🤔
What if artificial brains were a thing? Would having a prosthetic/artificial brain and/or head make you a fundamentally different person? Or what if your entire body EXCEPT your brain was artificial? What if you donated your brain to a different person? Would that person still be that person, but with your brain, or would they be YOU…and you had someone else’s body?
Or is it the idea that your brain is what makes you *you* and gives you value/identity an erroneous idea?
🤔
36-40, M
