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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. ;-)