(February 5, 2010 at 9:44 pm)Dotard Wrote: They way your neurological self (NS) contructs itself, no matter how different, makes you, you.
Baring trauma to the brain I would maintain "you" will remain "you" until natural decay of brain functions makes you into somebody else.
Now you're talking about the internal physical structures, psychology is still in its infancy. It was only a century ago that it became separated from philosophy. During Freud's time, all you needed to become a psychoanalyst was a degree in physiology. Of course there's more now, and illnesses of experience and conditions never imagined are being identified while psychology continues to develop. More over, you might find interesting that this locationism (localised and specific areas of the brain performing different functions) has largely been over thrown by a more monogamous description of plasticity, proposed by Edward Taub whom also had a massive hampering by the lay community which seen him charged with 119 counts of misconduct (incorrectly btw) from his experients. Following the trial 117 counts were thrown out and the bigger names resided with him. Shows how the reluctance for change is so damaging on a large scale.
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