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WalterL comments on LINK: New clinical trial will try to restore dead brains - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: WalterL 05 May 2016 01:11:55PM 0 points [-]

They are probably thinking of person as a soul. Kickstarting the brain might give you different thoughts or some other trivial thing, but the ghost should be the same, right?