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Oh man, the fretting and pearl clutching here over who the "self" is with body transplants among people who have forgotten nearly every other transplant, prosth
by bane 6y ago
Oh man, the fretting and pearl clutching here over who the "self" is with body transplants among people who have forgotten nearly every other transplant, prosthetic, and cloning technology we've cooked up so far and the complete nothing burgers all of them have turned out to be and are usually formed by people who've never met an amputee, and transplantee, or doesn't believe they've ever met a person with prosthetics.
Get back to me when people are swapping brain hemispheres with each other. Then we can have a meaningful discussion over the nature of self in a transplant scenario.
Even if they spends years in physical therapy and in the end aren't able to move and walk like a "normal" person, this could transform the lives of many people in impossibly meaningful ways given it works even to the level face transplants work today.