Would someone recieving a bionic transplant still be the same person?
February 15, 2013 at 3:37 am
This is based on a very stange dream I've just had about a friend of mine who was involved in some kind of accident that severly damaged their head and brain. The doctor was showing these X-ray images of the extent of injuries and explained how they were to operate to remove the whole head and replace it all with a bionic replica, this apparently being the future or something like that. So after the operation I see him there with his new head, the same as the old one only with the skin and eye colour of Data from Star Trek. I said something to him like "It must feel a bit strange having a new head" so I was just taking it for granted that this was the same guy as before. I only realised there was something a funny about this once I woke up though I found it difficult to explain what the problem would be if the head was an exact replica of the original bar the colour.
