“I ask you all a simple question. Who are nyou. Most of you people would would probably tell me nyour name profession or your life background. But what if i this question.
And ask nwhat are you is it your brain. That makes you you or is nit your heart lungs or maybe your consciousness. That makes you you if you keep thinking on this who am. I issue things starts getting pretty weird.
Let s figure out why you would agree with me. That your whole body nis. You no matter how much ever you change your behaviour nyour emotions. You would still remain you even.
If you cut your nails change your hairstyle nit. Does deduct atoms from your body. But that doesn t make you less you what if i say that you had a major operation nand to survive you had to transplant your liver big deal. But still you right now.
Imagine you are diagnosed with a terrible ndisease named polioebolaria volcanoconiosis or something horrible and to survive you had to change your heart nlungs kidneys facial tissues almost your whole body now will your family say that you had died nbecause you had replaced most of your physical body. No they wouldn t you d still be you none of that is needed for you to be you so maybe. It s your dna. That maintains you although you changed your body the dna of nyour existing cells still remains preserving your blueprint.
But the problem here is identical twins have nidentical dna. So most certainly you are you and your identical ntwin is not the same person as you so we can confirm that your dna is not you so is it the brain that makes you you now imagine that a mad scientist kidnaps. You nand. Our beloved indian.
Prime minister narendra modi. He carefully swaps your brain with mr. Modi. Now.
If you open your eyes. You realize that nyou are in mr. Modi s body..
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So. The question is are you still you maybe yes because although it was a mere nbrain transplant. We got the result of whole body transplant. So maybe wherever the brain goes your body nfollows.
Too what if the mad scientist instead of swapping nyour brains. Just with help of a computer swapped your brain s data so even without any physical body part transplant nyour personality memories experienced got swapped according to philosopher john locke s memory ntheory your memory of your experiences is what that makes you you you are not your physical body. But your memories nand experience. But the most fascinating fact about brain nis that left and the right part of the brain have their own little functions.
If one half is removed. Sometimes the other nremaining half may learn the functions of the removed one now let us imagine a hypothetical scenario. You have a twin brother. Named bob.
Who gets na fatal brain disease since you both share. The same dna doctors ndecide to transplant. One half of your brain to bob once. The operation gets over and you and nbob wake up.
There is mayhem. Everywhere. You look as bob. Now knows all of your little life secrets nand.
Embarrassing moments. Which kept you locked in your room for ages. Now. Since bob has the same data as you same npersonality and experience as you he is no longer your twin.
But he is you and if he nis you the question of who are you still remains intact. Maybe some questions are better if stayed nunanswered. Who knows you may be a part of something really nreally big crucial for someone s entertainment or maybe. You are part of something really ntrivial that your existence is just as pointless.
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