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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 7. Self and Body / b. Self as brain

6670	If my brain could survive on its own, I cannot be identical with my whole body [Lowe]
	Full Idea: If, as seems intuitively plausible, I could survive with my brain detached from the rest of my body, I most certainly cannot be identical with my whole body.
	From: E.J. Lowe (Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind [2000], Ch.10)
	A reaction: A key mistake is to treat the notion of 'I' as all-or-nothing. My surviving brain is much more like me than my surviving kidney, but the notion of my brain saying to my family 'it's me in that jar over there' sounds wrong. It is a bit of me.