• Question: if we swoped brains with somone would we still be the same person??????????????????????????????????????????????

    Asked by dallynmccrorie to Ben, Clare, Ezzy, Mario, Sam on 15 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by hepworthandsimmons.
    • Photo: Sam Vinko

      Sam Vinko answered on 14 Mar 2012:


      I think its safe to say our personalities, and everything you’d identify as yourself, is contained in the brain. Swap that and you’ll have a different person.

    • Photo: Elizabeth Pearson

      Elizabeth Pearson answered on 14 Mar 2012:


      I often wonder that myself. If you did the whole brain, you’d probably be the same but what if you put all your thoughts and memories into someone elses? It’s one of the big questions of neuroscience. What makes us ‘us’? Is it what we experience or how we’re wired.

    • Photo: Mario Campanelli

      Mario Campanelli answered on 15 Mar 2012:


      brain and body are incredibly connected, so if in some weird way if would be possible to swap the brains of two persons, the result would be two more persons different from each of the original ones.

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