In the “Third Night” Weirob brings up the case of Julia North. In this case, a brain surgeon was able to take the brain of Julia North, whose body was damaged due to a car accident, and place it in the body of Mary Frances Beaudine, who suffered a stroke. Weirob argues that since she is attached to the idea of her body, then she will not survive if her brain were transplanted into the body of another. She argues that in the case of Julia North she believes that it was Mary Frances Beaudine that survived.
Weirob then says that Dr. Matthews, the doctor that conducted the surgery on Julia North and Mary Frances, told her about a new procedure he was working on. She said that the procedure in which a brain was created that held the same psychological aspects of the person's current brain, it was called brain rejuvenation. She argued that this would also be a false understanding of being alive since there could be more than one of the same psychological brain. She also gives an example of Gretchen A and Gretchen B and argues how would either…show more content… It is as simple as that. When we dream, when we think, when we feel emotions it has nothing to do with your physical body. Sure, it has to do something with your organs and so forth, but they are just that. Organs. When we dream, it has nothing to do with our physical body. It is merely our minds and souls that contribute to the dream. As for the multiple psychological brains argument she, Weirob, is partly correct. How would either Gretchen be able to tell which one has the original brain with properly acquired memories, but then again why would they care if they did not know? They would still exist. It would be strange for them to exist simultaneously since they have the same memories and people in their lives. However, if they decide not to care and just go on living, in the end, it wouldn’t matter because they would, from then on, have different
