Re:What Type of Exercise Is Best for Mental Health?
by WJW on Monday June 26, 2023 @05:12AM
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Neither? "Me" consists of both body and brain, so unless you could find an identical body somehow, neither resulting person would be "me".
Re:What Type of Exercise Is Best for Mental Health?
by nradov on Monday June 26, 2023 @07:23AM
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I doubt that brain transplants will ever be possible, but in that hypothetical neither one would be me.
Re:What Type of Exercise Is Best for Mental Health?
by tikk on Monday June 26, 2023 @07:33AM
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There are two of you now. And two of the other. There are tons of brain-like networks of cells in the body, no? In and around the heart and such and I'm certain we'll find more in the next few decades. The fun part begins in how capable either of you and the other will be in establishing a functional union.
What's gonna happen when "your brain" recognizes your old body in with another head? Will "it" get horny? Jealous? Angry? Happy?
Phantom pain and stuff like that comes to mind and the question of how many dimensions (not levels on scale) of consciousness there are in this physical world/reality ...
Re:What Type of Exercise Is Best for Mental Health?
by darkerside on Monday June 26, 2023 @07:52AM
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Only an ego would even ask this question
I’m not sure there’s any clear answer to this as it touches on so many known and unknown unknowns. But, the assertion is that there most people (especially in western intellectual traditions) would consider wherever their brain is to be them (see also the concept of “brain in a vat” etc). This may or may not be true for you specifically.