Death

[Ace Otana]

This brings us back to the question of what is it that makes a person.

If you were to bang your head and loose your memory you would still presumably be the same person. A stroke etc. can cause a change in personality but does that mean a different person suddenly starts inhabiting the previous persons body?

Personally I think that there is something else, some other condition or attribute that makes a person themselves and gives them a unique sense of self awareness. Memory and personality are attributes of that self.

Identical twins can have exactly the same personality but they are still distinctly separate entities.

Twins can be extremely similar but neither can look through the others eye. I tend to think that a person who say had been starved of oxygen and then loses it's personality would end up dead. As in that particular person with the lost memories and personality is gone and has been replaced. If I had suffered that, would I still have the interest in aviation? Would I still be an atheist? If not then I think I could say I am truly dead. It would be like someone else owns my body.

I can see, hear and remember countless things. My upbringing I think has affected my personality. Even the smallest things that take place within my life makes me who I am.

I have wondered if I could come back as something else but would I be able to think as I think now, and would I have the same views and interests as I do now. Would I be able to see with a self aware mind that I do now? If neither of them are possible then I am truly dead. This is me and can I be duplicated after death? If I can, I wouldn't mind.