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

You know, given everything I've learned about how memories are stored somatic-ly (what IS the adjective) in the body, and how memories, emotions, perception, awareness isn't just brain, it's also sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the autonomic nervous system, it's muscle memory, it's hormones, it's adrenalin, it's proprieception and so forth. I'm not entirely certain that a brain removed and put onto a new body would be the same person, per se.

I may be wrong and misunderstanding, of course. "The Body Remembers" is the primary book behind my guess.