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Though I find it hard to relate to, many people consider their bodies to be essential to their identity — they wouldn't be them without it. These people find ou
by suchow 11y ago
Though I find it hard to relate to, many people consider their bodies to be essential to their identity — they wouldn't be them without it. These people find our intuition about what is essential similarly foreign.
- cbd1984 11y agoSome people have body dysmorphia issues, and some people just really identify with looking a specific way. I understand that. However, some people really identify with living in a specific location, too, but we don't usually regard moving day as the death date of the person who moved.
- Sharlin 11y agoTo be fair, AFAIK we don't really know how much the rest of the nervous system is "attuned" to being connected to a specific brain and vice versa. That is, even if the brainstem could be 100% connected to the spinal cord, we don't know how hard it would be to adapt to the new body. Could it result in something resembling the alien hand syndrome [1] or body integrity identity disorder [2], for instance? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_integrity_identity_disorder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_integrity_identity_disorde...