High Science

What is the Essence of You? ...... Musky Where are you right now? Are you the all the meat sitting down listening to this episode? Are you behind your eyes? Just the jelly in your skull? If I took your head and put it on another body, would you still be you? John, James, Kat and special guest Greg explore different ideas of personal identity. Are we our bodies? Our brains? Our memories? If our memories got wiped tomorrow, would we still be us moving forward? How many sentences are going to end in a question mark? What if John and James got hooked up to a machine. This machine left all the cells in their original bodies and only the information of John and James gets transferred? Memories, personality, and dreams get transferred from one person to another. Is James John or is James still James? Does your head hurt yet? Teleportation Goes Horribly Wrong Let's go to the future! Teleportation is a thing now. This is how it works: you walk in a room, you hit a button, the the room destroys the original version of