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Comment author: g_pepper 19 April 2015 04:10:12PM *  0 points [-]

I'd like to try being an octopus. What would it mean to be the same person with a different brain architecture?

Thomas Nagel touches on this question and its implications for physical reductionism of consciousness, the mind/body problem, and of objective discussions of subjective mental experiences in his 1974 essay What is it like to be a bat?.