re: #532 Salamantis

There are heart transplants, kidney transplants, lung transplants, but there is no such thing as a brain transplant, because the self is generated by the brain. To shift a brain from one body to another would be more correctly described as a body transplant. It is the single case where it is far better to be the donor than the recipient.

Sal, have you read Dennett’s Where Am I? Excerpt here, for all those interested in this question and issues about self and personal identity.

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