[extropy-chat] Agency as Prime Determinant of Personal Identity

[MB]

>
> If you had ever lived for years with an old person who was developing
> Alzheimer's disease with gradually failing memory, you would
> appreciate that after a certain stage in the disease the 'mind' has
> died. The body is still 'alive' and walking around but the person that
> you knew for years has died.
>

This is exactly what my old boss said about his mother.  "She" died years before her
body quit.

It was a very painful time for everybody.

Regards,
MB