Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Brain Transplant

 Has anyone heard of The Ship of Theseus? If you haven't, look it up. Now it's time to talk about what I wanted to talk about. If you were to have a total brain transplant, would you still be the same you? Think about it, you wouldn't have the same memories, feelings, and thoughts. Unless doctors and scientist invented some sort of injection that held all your old memories and feelings that they could inject into your new brain to give you all your old thoughts, memories, and feelings back. I doubt that though.
TIME TO GET BACK TO TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING LOGICAL
Most people believe you are made of your own actions and personalities. If you get a new brain, then you won't act like you used to. You wouldn't have the same memories either. Therefore, you wouldn't be you, but that's just half of it.
Other people believe that it's your body that make you who you are. So if you have the same body but different brain, the you would still be you.
What do you think?

-Scotty
P.S. If you did your research then you would realize that this is exactly like The Ship of Theseus and you would know why:)