If you woke up in another persons body, what would you do?

[Midnight_Rider]

Go back to sleep…

 

[GEddie]

Fortunately this isn’t possible; Bodies are not interchangeable!

But if it did happen, how I’d react would depend on whose body!

(And what in the meantime would have become of my Body?)

ICXC NIKA

 

[michaelArc]

I would see how fast I could throw a baseball or how high I could jump.

 

[tonyrey]

Turn over, say a prayer and go back to sleep…

 

[Peter_J]

If I was a girl I would hook up with my friends and break their hearts.

When they ask for advice I’ll tell them “It happens buddy.”.

I’m too clever

youtube.com/watch?v=AWpsOqh8q0M

 

[Crusaderbear]

Ok, for all you philosopher wannabes - assuming the body had been occupied would the personality you replaced be considered murdered if it didn’t turn up somewhere else? Assuming someone caused the switch on purpose…

 

[GEddie]

Perhaps if I clone my aging body and transplant my brain over to the new body, that would work. That would be interesting. Which one is “me”?

The body whose head your mind now resides in. That one’s easy.

What do I do with my old body?

Up to you. I’d consider placing mine in suspended animation, in case the new “me” ever needed skin, bone or organ cell grafts.

Is it murder if I killed it?

There would be no need to.

With the brain extracted, absent something like suspended animation, he’d die at once, unable even to breathe.

ICXC NIKA

 

[GEddie]

I would see how fast I could throw a baseball or how high I could jump.

Youse guys are all assuming your “new body” would be a far superior one; that might not be.

ICXC NIKA

 

[GEddie]

Is this a ploy to get us to accept transgenderism? :tsktsk:

Not necessarily.

But the question is essentially Hedo-Platonic in orientation.

Because we do not in fact have bodies (we are our bodies), the premise is flawed.

ICXC NIKA

 

[Isca]

Youse guys are all assuming your “new body” would be a far superior one; that might not be.

ICXC NIKA

I lost a huge amount of weight between the ages of 40 and 50. If I woke up back in a fat body, I’d be more than annoyed.

 

[Sarcelle]

I lost a huge amount of weight between the ages of 40 and 50. If I woke up back in a fat body, I’d be more than annoyed.

But with your hard won habits, you can lose weight again in that new body.

This dream happens to me all the time.

I am someone else and I have to live their life.

Then I wake up.

 

[meltzerboy]

If you woke up in another persons body, what would you do?

Would you try to convince your family a friends that it is you? Or would you just accept your predicament and live as the identity of the body you now inhabit?

Probably check into the nearest mental institution.

 

[IWantGod]

Probably check into the nearest mental institution.

You wouldn’t have to check in personally. You go around saying you’re in another persons body, especially to the family to which your new identity belongs, trust me you will be forced into a mental institution until you accept that you are in the right body.

An interesting side thought arises from this scenario about mental institutions and the criteria by which they judge you to be a mad man. They can never know for sure that you are really crazy; they just assume that things like this would never happen…

 

[Gertabelle]

Probably check into the nearest mental institution.

Whew. I was beginning to think I was the only one who’d take this route.

If enough of us checked in to the same place, we could start our own support groups, and maybe even meet up with the person who currently had our own body.

:grouphug: