When are we not ourselves?

[Losty]

Umm your religious views are pudding. I fuckin love pudding

[Spirian]

Umm your religious views are pudding. I fuckin love pudding

And I love, uhhh, "getting coffee" 

[madog]

I once read a fiction book, bit far fetched, but it said all your self was replaced in a place either just above the earth or inside the earth ....

Interesting, but was badly written with thousands of contradictions, trying to recall the title ...

Ps ... just remembered, the Bible ...

[Mystic]

Perpetual identity is a proof of the soul and in turn helps point to a creator/source that maintains the identity.

[The Grand Nudger]

No, it isn't, and no..it doesn't.   These are your beliefs, not a rational argument.

[bennyboy]

Perpetual identity is a proof of the soul and in turn helps point to a creator/source that maintains the identity.

Perpetual identity?

You mean, that thing where for a third of every day I sink into oblivion and have no identity?  Or that thing where I'm a totally different human being that I was when I was born, or when I was five?  Or you mean how the ideas that are core to my world view evolve over time, so that I would strongly disagree with that guy I was when I was 20 years old about almost every important issue?

You're gonna have to explain this, cuz I'm not seeing it. What I see is that every second is a death-- the bennyboy of each moment ceases to exist and will not exist ever again.  Not much perpetuation in that.

[Spirian]

Perpetual identity is a proof of the soul and in turn helps point to a creator/source that maintains the identity.

But what if we're the victims of perpetual identity theft? What then?

[WinterHold]

No, we are still the same person, because our souls -i.e our brains- are still the same: regeneration doesn't touch the neurological system, sadly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroregen...generation
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index...028AAbUpUq
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/263774.php

That's why my MS will never get cured, unless they find a way to repair souls -brains-, making the cells grow back; so I get my Myelin back.

Anyhow, No again, you are you, the same KUSU. The regeneration affect your normal body, but it doesn't affect your soul/neurological system. In there, if something is damaged, it stays damaged.

And good luck getting stuck with your memory; that kind of storage never ever go back to zero.

[KUSA]

But every atom in my brain is replaced every few years. I can't be the same person if my atoms aren't the same.

I am a copy of a person younger than myself.

[ohreally]

But every atom in my brain is replaced every few years. I can't be the same person if my atoms aren't the same.

I am a copy of a person younger than myself.

I would say you are looking at it in the wrong way.  Exactly what day/time/age of a person are we to measure to compare atoms to?  Is there no change before that?

By your method the baby being born isn't even the same person as when the first cell division happened so how can you ever be the same as you were before.