(December 18, 2013 at 1:52 am)feeling Wrote:Quote:If we were to create the brain, and stick the brain inside a human with the same dna as the brain, would that be you? if you can indeed be revived, if we do the same process and do that with another person, would that person be you still? if both persons are you, do you control both people?<spacesaving>
Both identities, regardless of sameness down to the subatomic particles comprising them, are necessarily separate entities... if only because of location.
Even in a hive, every ant is in a unique location. So too are the spoons in the factory.
However. Should YOU, the reader, ever be copied down to your finest, most minute details, but standing two feet to your left: that individual would best be recognized as YOU-2 (or B, if you like letterz and shiz). Both of you are valid existences of yourself, but both of your existences are necessarily different.
As such, no. You are not, infact, the same person. Location is a part of who we are, regardless of how utterly irrelevant in any applicable manner it may be.
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And to answer your question: do you even control the one of you that you already live with?
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
