Simple Body Swap Intuition
Shawn Berry
2/21/2012
Phil 2753 007
Alfred C. Lent and the Simple Body Swap Intuition
Alfred Lent argues that the simple mind body swap overlooks the personal history that comes with a body. He also puts on the table the question that does transplanting a brain from one body to a donor body preserve the original personhood.
Lent focuses on what makes a person and what qualifies as a person. Also he discusses how much a person can change, i.e. lose or gain body parts, memory etc., and remain the same person. He uses the book “Who is Julia” as an example of the simple body swap intuition. In this book a woman’s brain is transplanted into the body of another woman. Both of the women look dramatically different and have different lifestyles.
2/21/2012
Phil 2753 007
Alfred C. Lent and the Simple Body Swap Intuition
Alfred Lent argues that the simple mind body swap overlooks the personal history that comes with a body. He also puts on the table the question that does transplanting a brain from one body to a donor body preserve the original personhood.
Lent focuses on what makes a person and what qualifies as a person. Also he discusses how much a person can change, i.e. lose or gain body parts, memory etc., and remain the same person. He uses the book “Who is Julia” as an example of the simple body swap intuition. In this book a woman’s brain is transplanted into the body of another woman. Both of the women look dramatically different and have different lifestyles.