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What is a 'Person'? And can a person really change?
A head injury or neurological complication/illness can cause a change in personality, so much so that friends and family no longer recognise the 'person'. But is it still the same person, or just the same body? Therefore did the person die?
If a person under goes a sex / gender change, are they then no longer the same person?
And as we age we learn and our view change and we have more understanding, have we not changed the person we were?
Is being a person, your personality and therefore if that changes is that not the person that has changed and the old one is no longer alive?
Is a person ever alive, or is it only a body that is alive and a person just inhabits the body until the body dies?
1 Answer
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavourite answer
I'm sorry but how the hell would we know...?