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Sadona’s concern (at the top) is something that has concerned me as well and, I suppose has great philosophical implications. That is, if we are spiritual beings, then how can some physical condition of the brain change who we are.
I’m sure we have all read or heard about someone who after some brain trauma has “become a completely different person.” I suppose an atheist, agnostic, or some other non believer can easily justify such changes in personality without any problem, but as a firm and committed believer, I am unable to reconcile the physical with the spiritual. In the deep past, demons would have been blamed, but that doesn’t work for me.
So in the future can we decide who and what we want to be, take a pill, and become that person? If I get ill or injured will I become someone else? (Which remindes me of a book “A Stroke of Insight” http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html)
Any thoughts?
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