What Is the Self or Person?

In order to understand whether you should enhance in these extraordinarily radical ways, you need to ask the sophical question, what is the self or person? Here's what i mean. Would you continue to exist, or would you have actually been replaced by some one or something else when you engage in such a radical form of enhancement? This gets to issues in contemporary metaphysics. A consider, for example, the metaphysics of everyday objects such as an expresso machine. You can tell i like coffee a so ask yourself, and this may seem silly, but it will illustrate the point. The properties that a thing needs, the features that ah needs in order to continue existing, those are called