Our Brain Identity Promines Our Personal Identity

A number of further question need to be addressed if we take that our brain identity determines our personal identity. Between structural and functional identity one could argue that at the brain level can make a distinction. As new regions of the brain can become active and start performing the functions that previously process by the now-compromised parts. Structural damage does not always manifest itself functionally. Functional diseases of the brain like certain psychiatric diseases where cannot be pinned down to structural disorder. Foreign material to the brain would necessarily change the person’s identity. Our personal identity can be connected with the physiology. In this understanding of personal identity it is often utilized in justifying
discussions or for instance through organ donation cards. The idea is that the organs that have donate is still somehow belong to the dead or to the donor; there is physiological continuity of personal identity that survive in death. Alternatively we can also understand the personal identity primarily as social category. In similar thinking happens, say, the relatives have become “different persons” because of trauma, illness or life-changing experiences. In these conditions social roles seem to support personal identity.