Hi Craig Weinberg and Stathisp, You identity is only partly in your brain, it is in your dna, your body and your history. The sum totality of your identity is called your soul, which suggests a serious shortcoming of materialis. So far materialists deny that there is such a thing as a soul. And even if so, nobody has proposed how a soul transplant could be done.
Roger Clough, [email protected] 9/28/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-27, 23:30:24 Subject: Re: Forget Zombies, Let's Talk Torture On Thursday, September 27, 2012 11:16:12 PM UTC-4, stathisp wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> Replacing body parts that break down with artificial ones is >> well-established in the medical industry, and will become increasingly >> so in future as the devices become more sophisticated. > > > Are you saying that you expect replacing someone's brain would be no more > problematic than replacing any other body part? It will be more difficult to make an adequate replacement the more complicated the part is, but the principle is the same: put the device in, ask the patient how he feels, observe the patient to see how he behaves including tests and investigations. If he says he feels normal, he behaves normally and test results are normal you have succeeded. The principle is not the same. You cannot get a head transplant and assume that the 'you'-ness is going to magically follow the scalpel into your head from your body. You cannot get a prosthetic head, because without a head, there is no 'you' there anymore. Craig -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/2LYmh2j2qOkJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
