Quote Originally Posted by Noir View Post
Regarding some of the above posts - this has nothing to do with socialism etc.
Pull the other one !! Your assertion couldn't be more false.

That is the right question, and I think the answer has to be no. “My” body is not the same body I had yesterday, nor will it be the same tomorrow. In what sense is your body the same as the one you occupied when you were 15?

Are you your body, or are you inside it?
Just as expected ... you're taking this to the extreme where any sense of 'self' is open to question and doubt. Anyone foolish enough to be prey enough to such an effort of 'programming', could be expected to be shorn of all self-worth, since - supposedly - 'self' is meant to be seen as ultimately meaningless.

If your body isn't the same one you had yesterday ... whose IS it, then ?? Do you go in for body swapping on a daily basis ??

Chew on this ...

A person's character exists.

A person's memory exists.

A person's beliefs exist.

Most particularly .. a person's DNA profile exists !!!

We aren't all being regularly reborn, 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' style, Noir. When I go to sleep tonight, tomorrow I'll wake up as ME, and not somebody else. Your continuation of an argument suggesting otherwise, if in fact you DO continue with this, won't alter the truth of any of my above statements .. yet, if you were right, I'd have to be telling falsehoods.

There will never be a time when I will doubt I'm me, Noir. And may I suggest that, for all of the extreme perversity of your current argument, neither will YOU.

Isn't that right, Fred .. ?