RE: Would someone recieving a bionic transplant still be the same person?
February 21, 2013 at 11:57 am
(This post was last modified: February 21, 2013 at 11:59 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Wouldn't it be so simple to say Apo, that the very nature of whatever it is that we call "self" appears to involve change. Nothing too complicated or heady about that. This removes the objection that if "self" changes it is no longer the same "self". Of course it wouldn't be the -same- "self", but it -is- still the "self". Who doesn't expect change to arise from interaction eh? Redefine the word to form a more sensible concept.
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