Maybe this topic has been discussed before but I’m still new here so here’s a story: suppose I had plastic surgery done to my body, then a month later an accident disfigured my face and so I had face transplant. maybe a year later my kidneys stopped working so I had kidney transplant, then next the heart doctor said I need a new heart, and a new liver, then a lung doctor said he will have to remove a portion of my right lung, and a diabetes doctor said 2 of my toes will have to be amputated, then I broke a hip and so the doctors placed a metal in my hipbone, then my left knee gave out and so I had a knee replacement. My question is: Am I still me? Where am I in my body? Wait, I also decided to change my sex.
silly question, brain, and yes you are,
I think in that situation you are still sufficiently you. Now, if we changed EVERYTHING besides your brain, that might be a different matter. The feedback the brain is getting is different. I suspect you wouldn’t be you for very long.
I think in that situation you are still sufficiently you
suppose I got Usama bin Laden’s evil heart, Saddam Husein’s evil kidneys, am I still a good person (I think I’m good)? Will their “evil-ness” transfer to my body or will I change the evil-ness to goodness?
you’d totally still be you…
unless someone errased your memory and replaced it with other events that made your personality change…
then youd not be ‘yourself’ anymore. 
And if some of the memory is gone? Is it still you or not? And if you forget stuff when you are old, and besides that, your memory will get worse. Are you still you?
So you are saying that all people with amnesia or old people who’s forgetting stuff are not the same people anymore? I don’t think so, even though their memory may be temporarily gone, it’s still going to be there in their brain even though it;s not being used.
Also, this opens another topic: Are you still you after you die and they put you in the coffin?
Who cares in the memory is still there, by the way sometimes its erased for good. It doesn’t matter if you still consist of the same atoms. If you can’t remember anything about yourself, how is that you?
And yes, I think the older you get, the more you change and if you live say unil 100, I think you can consider yourself a “new” person, since you forgot everything that happened to you in the first 60 years anyway.
Yes! You are not you anymore if you have total amnesia. If it is only partial then you are only partially you. This happened to me. I had to relearn how to respond to things that I know I should have known.
What happened to you?
I was in an accident. I was working on a telephone pole. The pole fell over and I hit the ground and the pole hit me. I was in and out of surgery for 2 months, 6 months rehab and have never been the same since.
Would you care to share some details? What became different? Did you lose some of your previous qualities or maybe gained new ones? What about the memory? And most importantly, how do you know you are not like you were before?
silly question, brain, and yes you are,
suppose I got Usama bin Laden’s evil heart, Saddam Husein’s evil kidneys, am I still a good person (I think I’m good)? Will their “evil-ness” transfer to my body or will I change the evil-ness to goodness?
never had organ transplant before so I cannot tell if I am still I am or feel the same. All I know is that in organ transplant patients, sometimes they reject the organ as the body thinks it is foreigh body, but now there are medications for that. What I want to know is besides the feeling of happiness that one is still alive after receiving a different organ, how long does the happiness and your new organ last especially if you take drugs, diet, exercise, doctors visits, etc, the rest of your borrowed life, is it worth it? to live for a few years more?