How Much Can You Lose and Still Be You?
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The article 'How Much Can You Lose and Still Be You?' explores the concept of personal identity and how it relates to physical and cognitive changes, sparking a discussion on the nature of self and its relationship to the brain.
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People can lose senses and still adapt towards maintaining a self-composed personality, albeit struggling to reconcile differences with a past state. But anything that degrades the cerebral cortex causes a discernible loss of sense of self, for both the individual and any observers, and many times the individual doesn’t even remember or know they’ve undergone a change. In some sense, people are not just their own minds, but what other people remember of them.
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