Alfred Lent and the Simple Body Swap Intuition Essay Example

Alfred Lent argues that the simple mind body swap overlooks the personal history that comes with a body. He also puts on the table the question that does transplanting a brain from one body to a donor body preserve the original personhood. Lent focuses on what makes a person and what qualifies as a person. Also he discusses how much a person can change, i. e. lose or gain body parts, memory etc. , and remain the same person. He uses the book “Who is Julia” as an example of the simple body swap intuition.

In this book a woman’s brain is transplanted into the body of another woman. Both of the women look dramatically different and have different lifestyles. My understanding is that Lent considers the transplant results in a composite of both women. He c