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Yeah, your sensory and motor systems would be fairly screwy since they map to the brain itself. How screwy, I don't know, but I imagine you would have at least some trouble moving around, feeling and picking up objects, etc.
Those damned IRBs not letting us ruin people's lives in the name of science!
I've always felt that the most disturbing thing about a body transplant would be the fact that you will be constantly, unavoidably tasting somebody else's sputum (and feeling their cavities with THEIR TONGUE). There would also be serious odour issues I imagine.
It's not theirs anymore.
That would be a point; what point does you concept of "ownership" of a mere collection of atoms change? It's said that you already posses atoms that were once part of Hitler, Ghengis Khan, Jesus and so on, and the water you drink once passed through dinosaurs. Our minds aren't really built to accommodate reality like this.
I think you just pulled the Ultimate Godwin. "Ha, I'm right because you're Hitler!" "No, you're Hitler!" "Oh my god, we're all Hitler!"
Everyone is also Jesus... in purgatory!
Well, with bodies being different shapes and sizes, and in the case of different sexes hooked up to different (though mostly analogous) parts entirely, it would be a bit difficult to visualise. But I suppose if you made a near atom-for-atom replacement there wouldn't be much of a problem.
Probably the closest thing we've ever done to this are the recent arm and face transplants, so that would be what you'd need to look up.
i don't get "face" transplants, since much of what makes up our face is the bone structure underneath, right? And that's not changing.
I already do experience living in someone else's body. When I look in a mirror or see recent photographs, I hardly recognise the face as being me. Photographs of me in my 30s are "me"; that's still how I still think of myself rather than the wrinkly, saggy-faced, balding alien that confronts me in the bathroom mirror every morning.
What The Matrix refers to as "residual self image", I'm sure. I have the same with my voice as in my head it's pitched down relative to what recording sound like.
I have this EXACT feeling. I 'feel" 40 lbs lighter, and "look" 30. I see myself in the mirror and say "who's that fat old woman'. I don't look in the mirror very much anymore. ;-)