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Hi again,
The question this is supposed to get at is what are 'we' really. Are 'we' really human beings, souls, embodied minds or something else. While I personally agree that a 'self' would certainly awake after the transplant I don't believe that 'we' are fundamentally embodied minds, I take that to be one of the things we are which also comes after we are many other things. That is I don't believe our bodies 'just happen to be here too' where the brain is all that 'is really important'. We are not self-conscious until , at least, several months after birth and so consciousness development is clearly intimately tied to body development.
Further bodies minus the locus of generation of consciousness (upper brain removal) are still able to do many things they did before, many things intimately tied with being human, such as reproduce, ward of infection, grow and respond to stimuli.
Anyway just trying to stir things up a little more and thanks for the responses
tim(mah)
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