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Plecko  ·  3450 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: When does a human cease to be a human?

Sorry for being so brief, I'm not well read on the matter. It's been about a year since I've looked into it so sorry if I muck up.

Basically the question is "Where is the mind?" If you believe in a soul than you'd suppose that the mind is ethereal and only connected and communicating through the flesh of the brain.

The other opinion that I know of is Naturalism or something to that effect, which states that the mind is a representation of physical states of the flesh. Just the same way that digestion is done by the digestive tract and not etherically linked to it. This is the opinion I hold simply since I haven't read a convincing argument against it. Unfortunately if the mind and brain are one in the same, it is impossible to transfer, and any attempt at doing so would just be making a copy.