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It's a good and interesting question, though probably irrelevant to the discussion at hand. Organ transplant recipients do tend to feel themselves to be the sam
by darawk 8y ago
It's a good and interesting question, though probably irrelevant to the discussion at hand. Organ transplant recipients do tend to feel themselves to be the same person, empirically.
- pixl97 8y agoHow many brains have we transplanted?
- darawk 8y agoNever, to my knowledge. It has been done in animals though: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/15/two-surgeons-in-china-developing-a-method-to-transplant-a-human-head.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/15/two-surgeons-in-china-develo... And anyway, it's not really the point. There is no reason, in principle, that the brain cannot be repaired in place.