I just thought of something.
Say somehow we were able to get every organ we need to make a human from different people. Now say we were able to put it all together and were able to pump blood through the body and give the heart a beat. Up to the point where the body would have a pulse and organs would be working. Would the creation just have the same attitude and feelings as the person whos brain we got it from? Would it turn into a brand new human with different feelings as the brain donator? Or if we were successful and the body was doing everything like pumping blood, beating the heart, lungs breathing, and everything else but it not actually being alive like talking and being a person would that prove that there is something more to us? Would it prove we have souls?
I honestly dont know if i explained that clearly enough. But its an interesting thought.
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Also say every organ donor had the same blood type and the body was somehow able to accept every donated part
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Med student here.
This has actually been tried by many (Nazis and Imperial Japanese comes to mind) and doesn't work because whatever immune system you gave this "person" would reject each organ.
Each cell has certain receptors on it that are recognized by your body and your body alone. Some cells are less specific than others (red blood cells for example, which is why you can donate blood but even it has to be pretty specific), but most are extremely specific.
If you get an organ donation, a heart transplant for example, you have to take meds for the rest of your life to suppress your immune system so it won't view the cardiac tissue as foreign and fuck it up.
But if this is more of a "who are we" type of question then yeah, the person would act and "be" the same person that you took the brain from. The reason for this is the brain is where everything that we associate with mentality is. There's a specific part of your brain responsible for your emotions (the limbic system), a part responsible for memory (many different parts actually), a part responsible for thought and choice making (the frontal lobe), and even a part responsible for producing consciousness (cerebral cortex).
Whether we have souls or not can't really be determined by studying the body (there's no evidence we do but who knows).
Makes sense?
It would he a hellish miserable existence. They brain grows with the body, so replacing every single organ, even if you could somehow survive it, would now doubt come a with horrendous pain and dysphoria.
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Yes thank you medfag.
But seriously that was really interesting. I actually didnt even know people who get transplants have to take meds for the rest of their lives.
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Some people do not have to take meds. My wife had a liver transplant when she was 5. The anti rejection drugs gave her lymphoma so she was taken off them. No one is quite sure why but her liver is perfect to this day without meds. Maybe because she was so young, the liver and immune system formed a symbiosis?