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I put it like this: if you replaced any other part, or even all your other parts with machines, you'd still be (what you think of as) you... because your brain would still be in there.
There is, however, no replacing the brain. If your brain goes, you go with it. You are your brain.
but that's not true tho, if you replaced my hand I'd be like "well I AM one handed now", there won't be a two handed me anymore so i'll be a new me. and like if this was true, then transgender folk would have a hell of a easier time i think.
Yes it is true, very much so. You took one part of the argument and reflected it.
So how about the other part of that comment.
Do you believe you would still be you without your brain?
that's kinda a pointless question because we can't verify?? you have a brain when ur born but obvs it's a different kind of brain when ur old. the brain changes too so what is the "me" here? like my brain is different already from when i started writing this.
It can easily be verified. Find someone without a head and ask them. Are they the same person just without a head?
no but go and find that head and ask the same question lmao
He said "things are cool baby"
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So what you're saying is..... the brain is its own thing, then.
lol no? what do you think happens when you speak to a head without a body? or a body without a head?
Neither acknowledges my interesting stories and that makes me sad. You're right. They're nothing without each other.