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Yes I think they are tied together also. I don’t agree that the person literally becomes a different person when I say that a brain injury can result in a different personality. If God pulled ‘Me’ out of my body and put ‘Me’ into a body with physical brain damage it could result in intense psychological stresses that I’m not used to in my current body/brain.It is true, our brains or our physical minds does effect how we can act. I think that the physical mind is tied to the mind of the soul in some way. There could be two possibilities. One possibility is that when they are mentally gone or mentally crippled: Both the soul mind and and physical mind are hurt together, or.... the other possibility is: The soul mind is trapped from acting freely like it used to. The soul mind could be like in a coma or or a partial coma or something while the physical mind is crippled.
My new brain would not come with a new ‘Me’, but it could break me and appear to result in a different me, just like traumatic events in my life might appear to result in a new me, but it would actually still be me. Inside of a damaged brain could consist of unexplainable anxieties, irritabilities (resulting in an angrier more confrontational me), confusion, paranoia, fears, a retreat into self pity knowing that my previous mental capacities are gone, etc. And I’ve seen this in mentally unstable people, this overwhelming feeling that something is terribly wrong, yet nothing to put their finger on as to why.
A person’s will power also factors in. On a scale of 1 to 10 if we’re talking about a level 5 brain injury, some people may have a breakdown of their previous personality, but some may cope with it fairly well. A level 8 brain injury however may have simply too much new mental stress for anyone to handle and remain their usual self. I also think that if ‘I’ were placed inside of someone like Elon Musk’s brain I would still be me, but I would all the sudden enjoy greater mental capacities and grasp concepts I never understood before, kind of like Bradly Cooper taking the Limitless pill...I would not start acting like Elon though I would still be me.
But these brain injury effects on personality & mental capabilities definitely makes me believe that ‘We’ are dormant beings outside of a body, like a memory stick no longer attached to a computer. This could also possibly explain soul sleep. So I don’t believe in something like property dualism.
So it’s interesting to think about the total opposite direction of the brain injury situation, an injury that makes you more irritable and angry. What if you are placed in a new body/brain where all the irritability & stresses are minimized from your current brain, as opposed to maximized?
Being placed inside of a new spiritual body might mean that it’s still ‘You’, but the physiology of this new body/brain has something that your current brain isn’t used to but in the opposite direction of the brain injury, a positive change not negative...an overwhelming sense of calmness, bliss, everything you experience in your greatest moods only 20 times more pleasant, all resulting in a non-existent irritable & angry version of you...yet it would still be you. This is something I think of when I try to imagine an afterlife where there’s a world living in peace. Because the world has always been so corrupt & violent so sometimes it’s hard to imagine how world peace would work (where free will also still existed).
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