I'm going to change this into a harder question: There's a drug that causes anterograde amnesia that keeps you from forming long-term memories while you're on it A guy who wants to commit a violent crime deliberately takes the drug so he won't live with the guilt of doing ithttps://twitter.com/GailSimone/status/1315510372275613697 …
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You're not the "same person" you were thirty MINUTES ago. The idea of a continuous self is a lie your brain is telling itself.
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"Personality" is, like, 80% mood + memories + skills, and 20% microphysical brain structure. This is one of the things Buddhism got right long before the neuroscientists caught up.
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No, but also, yes, in the fact that a mass murderer's brain is still more likely to continue being the structure of a brain that could commit mass murder. So its right to be aware of that and punish, or better yet, actually try to rehabilitate, them
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That's EVERYONE'S brain. LITERALLY EVERYONE'S.
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Reminds me of the wild Doug Parkhurst story
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