The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 55 of 254

Persons are not the same as their bodies

As he summarises it, ‘My argument has been that knowledge of what has happened to a person’s body and its parts will not necessarily give you knowledge of what has happened to the person, and so, that persons are not the same as their bodies.’

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