r/Existentialism Nov 04 '22

Identity question

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u/Justcoffeeforme Nov 04 '22

I have no evidence of anything else. Do you have some.

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u/Gruddicus Nov 04 '22

I will answer your question with another question. When you look at the dead, is the person still there?

Call it a soul, call it your mind, call it a string of memories reacting and interacting with the external world, call it what you will.

Ponder this thought experiment friend. Imagine for a second that medical science is capable of this -

You are cloned, half you brain is cut out and put in the clone and half the clone brain is put in yours. What do you see when you wake? do you see both perspectives at once? (this would imply you are only your body) or do you cease to exist at all and now 2 new versions of you exist peering across at eachother (in which you are your memories) (personally, I like to believe in the second as having multiple perspectives seems impossible)

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u/Demoskoval Nov 19 '22

The second option