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I think the answer is that if you replaced someone else's nervous system with your own, 'you' would feel things that body experiences instead of 'them'. Yeah, that makes sense.

Fuckertalk to me :D|see my shit04:57, 5 February 2012

Except that you likely would not expereince it as "you". There is some evidence to strongly suggest that you "know" who you are. You know the size of your body, the way your fingers feel (you have a slight nerve-dead spot on your pointer finger from an accident you had 13 years ago), even teh way you perceive light. When I had a strange type of migrain, it gave me a slight blind spot in one eye for a second. I woke up with it, but knew instantly that something was wrong.

you would wake up, expecting your body, your sensations, your emotional reaction (which is not just brain, but hormones, and physical tension), and you would not feel like you.

so who would you be?

Pink mowse.pngGodotGrow a vagina05:09, 5 February 2012

My best explanation is that the person who've your nervous system has been transplanted into will still feel like themselves, only now... 'you'... will be them. Yeah, none of it makes any sense. I guess we won't understand until we learn a lot more about the brain and whatnot.

Fuckertalk to me :D|see my shit05:12, 5 February 2012
 

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.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)05:23, 5 February 2012

Sounds like a great idea for an experiment!

TyAnnoy05:24, 5 February 2012

Those damned IRBs not letting us ruin people's lives in the name of science!

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)05:27, 5 February 2012

Just use some nanobots to rapidly age some clones and upload an STC mind into them.

TyAnnoy05:28, 5 February 2012
Nebuchadnezzar (talk)05:38, 5 February 2012

Damn. We can insert additional genes and patent them still, right?

TyAnnoy05:39, 5 February 2012

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.

Brendiggg (talk)07:04, 5 February 2012

It's not theirs anymore.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)07:32, 5 February 2012

Yes. But it was theirs. It might take time to forget this.

Brendiggg (talk)08:57, 5 February 2012

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.

Scarlet A.pnggnostic13:49, 5 February 2012

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!"

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)23:11, 5 February 2012

Everyone is also Jesus... in purgatory!

Scarlet A.pngnarchist00:04, 6 February 2012
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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.

Scarlet A.pngd hominem06:07, 5 February 2012

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.

Pink mowse.pngGodotGrow a vagina06:13, 5 February 2012

Well, when your face looks like this that's the least of your problems.

Scarlet A.pngsshole06:44, 5 February 2012

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.

Redchuck.gif ГенгисRationalWiki GOLD memberModerator11:36, 5 February 2012

The picture on your userpage still gives you away for the handsome devil that you are, G.

SJ Debaser11:50, 5 February 2012
 

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.

Scarlet A.pngpostate13:52, 5 February 2012
 

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. ;-)

Pink mowse.pngGodotGrow a vagina21:19, 5 February 2012