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What are the minimum required characteristics that make you "you"?
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February 7th, 2014
(Related to this question I just asked).
If your cognitive, emotional, and physical characteristics were systematically removed one-by-one, at what point would you cease to be you?
Nearly all of us would feel that a loss of some or all of our limbs or physical ability would not result in a loss of self. But what about cognitive ability? What if damage to the brain resulted in something like prosopagnosia (face blindness), retrograde amnesia (memory loss of previous events), or anterograde amnesia (inability to create new memories)? What if an injury to the insular cortex resulted in changes in emotion and compassion?
At what point would you stop being “you”?
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