Death without Dying

[Eilonnwy]

Putting it all down to chemicals oversimplifies a great deal, there is also the physical topology of the brain as well as genetic information in the genome that is known as a few different things, Carl Jung first dubbed them Racial memory and cultural memory, there is also Birth memory which is a memory acquired without sensory experience or remembering the way we do normally.

Memory can also be inherited through meiosis and mitosis, again related to cultural and racial memory.

I see what you're saying. I was oversimplifying, but the point was that it still all exists in the brain right? And so if it's permanently damaged and those genetic factors are ruined, then your sense of self is dead, right? Of course if certain genetic components can't be ruined without the actual body dying then maybe there is something of you in there, but I think if you permanently can't remember your past life and are different from your past personality, that past self is essentially dead.