Personal Identity

What makes you who you are? What makes you the same person as a toddler as you are when you're an old person?
Theory that it is your physical body that makes you who you are. seems straightforward. Although the physical matter is constantly changing you are the same human/living organism throughout your life just at different stages of development
Problem: consider the brains of two people being switched.The person would go where the Brain goes. body X would wake up with brain Y - that person would consider themselves Y not X.
This is the Brain theory. Problem: If there was a contraption like a brain recorder that you could put on someones head and it recorded their whole brain set up, all the nerves, neurons, everything. You then put that on another person's head…

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