In truth such an experiment is impossible, we are body and soul. You can't split the two. At least no one on Earth can.
How? I thought this was about deciding between a moral action and a beneficial action.
I have a question out of pure curiosity where would the soul be held? I imagine the brain.
That's why this is a thought experiment, and, no, this is about what you think makes up your 'self.'
Get Brian juices working on how you define yourself. What makes you different from everyone else on the spinning ball destined to be destroyed?
If it's about what makes up yourself then it's not covered in the dilemma. Both bodies will have souls that don't match with their actual memories therefore both people seize to exist and create different people entirely.
I didn't really think of that,
I only didn't want my partner's mind nor body to suffer...
Memories are just luggage I'll drop like a sack of potatoes once I'm done with this life and move on to the greener pastures.
Well, what exactly is a soul? If the soul defines who you are does that mean it holds onto memories and experiences? As memories and experiences define who you are then it makes sense that the soul holds thou memories. And since in the dilemma, you
The rules of the dilemma say it compromises everything you are including memories and experiences.
A delimma is a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially equally undesirable ones. It is true that after the transplantation, you'd not be quite 'you,' and this is what it is even about. How much does one person have to change to cease being, well, you? Where does your personal identity reside? To give a similar analogy, if one day you wake up in a different person's body, are you the same 'you' you had been before waking up in that body? Or the current person who is occupying your past body is you.' Is the person's body you feel like occupying even 'you'? Nothing changed except the mental content.
What exactly does that mean? Self-doubt?
See this what I was thinking.
The you that made the choice no longer exists for you now only remember yourself as the other guy. The analogy you provided isn't similar at all.
Aah, I see I mixed that up too so you're the other guy now okay.
If you JUST want to know that, the experiment is flawed.
Not exactly. For the sake of argument let's define a soul as one's intrinsic traits. As the metaphysical connection to God, that's what it most likely is. So let's say person A is a naturally optimistic person but has learned to be charitable through experiences while person B is the opposite. Once the switch happens you have an optimistic but greedy person and a pessimistic but charitable person. Neither of these people are the same.
So a soul is like a baseline state.
Does that mean losing memories implies they have lost their identity too?
Right, my bad. I thought the thread title would have made this obvious.
It makes sense, yes. But both of you know that you've swapped bodies here.
Yes.