if scientist were able to transplant parts of a brain to a damaged part to your brain and kept going on and on overtime till you had no part of your original brain left would you still be you? or how about if they were able to replace half of your brain with another half, they have done this sucessfully to a certain degree with alzeimers patients some of the cells lived and worked but the patient didnt respond to treatment
2007-01-09 10:08:25 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
lobotomy is removing what if you replace and it took
2007-01-09 10:14:45 · update #1
but what if you replaced half and it worked the nerves grew together and evrything
2007-01-09 10:17:24 · update #2
I think a person would be different if parts of your original brain were taken away and different parts put in.
2007-01-09 10:19:42 · answer #1 · answered by ♥Sodas♥ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe that there is no you to be in the first place.
Rather than the religious belief that we have some sort of soul, which acts through the brain, and is the subject of the thought process (cogito ergo sum), I believe that the thoughts are the thinker, and that if you removed the thoughts from the brain then there would be nothing left (this is the bundle theory of mind, a neuroscience theory for the origin of conciousness, not shared by any religion except buddhism).
Conclusion, changing your brain wouldn't make a difference, as long as you retained memory, you would still be a product of your own imagination.
2007-01-09 18:16:04 · answer #2 · answered by Om 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you would still be you, until they started replacing memory parts. Think of a brain like a mass of a thousand processor chips. Most of them are redundant with processors in other peoples brains...how to breath, how to blink, how to walk, how to use your hands and arms, how to blink. But some of them are not, such as memory and experience 'chips'. Those are unique to the individual.
2007-01-09 18:14:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are your brain. Tamper with that, and you are no longer you. Ever seen a person after a lobotomy? They're gone.
2007-01-09 18:13:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Then you'd be partly you, partly someone else. Kind of like a lobotomy, but the missing part would be replaced. Not that weird, really.
2007-01-09 18:12:04 · answer #5 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Where do I find a "me" anywhere right NOW? What do you define as "you"? My brain isn't "me", nor is my anger, etc.
2007-01-09 18:14:15 · answer #6 · answered by vinslave 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋