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Re:When you split the brain, do you split the person? by amelius on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @12:20PM (#15393550)
Ok, so by "not a thing" you mean "abstraction", rather than something which does not physically exist.
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Re:When you split the brain, do you split the person? by klank on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @01:03PM (#15393922)
It's a philosophical question about when does something begin to exist vs. it is just an abstraction comprised of constituent parts.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/material-constitution

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