The Third Night Summary

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Based on John Perry’s Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality “The Third Night”, Weirob believes that she would not want to attempt survival by having her brain attached to another body or she would not consider the surgery to be survival. The example that Weirob, Cohen and Miller use is the accident of Julia North who experienced a surgery where her brain was taken out of her body and placed into a new body, Mary Frances Beaudine. Weirob raises the argument that although Julia North remembers being Julia in Mary Frances Beaudine’s body, she believes that the effect of the operation may have caused Mary Frances Beaudine to be deluded, thinking that she was someone else. She also raises the argument according to the memory theory saying

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