Would someone recieving a bionic transplant still be the same person?

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If he was the person then I would see two ways of doing it. Either there would be some kind of an immaterial soul that would use transfer over to the new head, or the new head would generate the same consciousness as the original now dead head by replacating every function of the orginal brain material to every last minute detail. I don't really understand what Buddhists believe all that well but that would probably be first scenario seeing as generally believe in rebirth and transmigration, it would be a transmigration into the new head. If it's the form of Buddhism that is essentially materialism/naturalism then you would just have to organise the mater to replicate the same effect within the universe that being the original conscious produced by that specific brain. It would have to be the same consciousness rather than an exact copy of it but the question is whether anyone could tell the difference. If it's a product of a purely material and physical process then it ought to be possible to transfer it.