PHIL 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Brain Donor, Personal Identity
12 Jan 2016
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Tommy vladek aged 9 is emotionally disturbed; doesn"t talk. Tried everything, mediction, special school, now attends school for exceptional children. His dad is attending a meeting at this school. Well not like everyone else but the school will help him live up to his own potential. Tommy drew a face but destroyed it afterwards. What about the mental, physical, emotional, financial toll that he is wreaking on the. He could be a brain donor, or tommy would be a body donor. What is it was tommys body but a females brain. Personal identity: criteria body, brain, mind or soul, memory, there is no abiding self. Similarity: is always about 2 or more things. They are numerically different things inspite of similarity. Therefore there is no such thing as identical twins. Both tommy and sam cannot survive the operation.
