Theories and Philosophies

What makes us, us?

Cloning, gene editing, and cybernetics are all in the early stages of experimentation today and will likely to become prevalent in our near future. This will have a great impact on answering an age-old question, “What are we?” Are we just the meat, bones, and neurons that make up our human body, or are we something more that merely drives our meat vessel? What will happen to us when we physically change? It may sound ridiculous off the cuff, but consider this thought-experiment to better understand what...