12-04-2019, 04:32 PM
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Conundrum 2 - What Makes Me Me?
You are married or in a relationship and your partner (man/woman doesn't matter) is seriously ill. They have a condition where their physical body is degrading rapidly except for the brain. Ultimately this will kill them.
Science has improved to such an extent that they can now transplant a brain into another human body.
As it transpires a body has become available. Another person is sick and suffering from an irreversible brain condition leaving that person a vegetable. They are on a life support machine with no quality of life. The brain is near dead but rest of their body is fine. There is no family left for this person, parents all dead and no children. The intention is to switch off the life support machine.
QUESTION
Would you have you partner's brain transplanted into the other body to try and save them?
If so, would it still be the same person or not?
Does the brain constitute essentially who your loved one is or is there some other part needed?
12-04-2019, 06:23 PM
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Re: Conundrum 2 - What Makes Me Me?
Missing the point really.The question is, IF YOU DID transplant the brain, would that person still be your partner? Or just an automaton? Is the Nature and essence that makes your partner what he/she is something to be found in the brain or is it somewhere else?
12-04-2019, 07:35 PM
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Re: Conundrum 2 - What Makes Me Me?
Originally Posted by Mups
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God, you're such a cheerful soul Realist!Religion, politics, impending death, brain transplants . . .
Sort of bloke you'd love to have at a party.
Every party needs a Realist!
Especially if someone has lit a spliff..
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