The Effects of Reduction on the Brain

In the Williams example, just to quote, he will first activate some neuros that will give me amnesia. The surgeon next tells me while I'm still in pain, he will later flip another switch, which will cause me to believe that I am Napoleon. This is just changing your memory. And all these replacement things come down to the idea that you have at the extremes, things that are obviously different but then because you're gradually replacing something,. whether it's memories, or actually replacing neurons with exact duplicates.