Would you survive a brain transfer

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Would you survive a brain transfer?
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• If personal identity was identity of brain, then
  you would survive in in a different body if your
  brain is transplanted into it
• Dave and Sam think this is obvious. The brain
  theory preserves all the good features of
  psychological continuity, guarantees the right
  causal relations, and also avoids the duplication
  problems

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• Sam and Dave psychological characteristics are
  what we really care about, so it is important
  that a theory of personal identity reflect this
  fact.

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• Suppose your brain was scanned and the structure
  of your brain was reproduced in another body.
• The person in this body would have your memories
  etc, and would have a brain structurally
  identical to yours.
• This might be what would happen in teleportation
  cases.

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• If you are dying and your brain is scanned, would
  you survive in the new body?
• But what if you are not dying or did not die?
• The problems of duplication re-emerge

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