Already thought of that. As yet there is no way to separate the intentional part of the person from the unintentional part - the mind from the body, if you prefer to think of it that way.
Today, the body enjoys special legal protection because it has inseparability from the person. As far as the law is concerned today, it *is* the person. When or if that inseparability is overcome, then that changes the fundamental nature of personhood, and probably almost all our laws will become inappropriate to some degree.
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Posted: Jan 15th 2008 8:41PM (Unverified) said
Today, the body enjoys special legal protection because it has inseparability from the person. As far as the law is concerned today, it *is* the person. When or if that inseparability is overcome, then that changes the fundamental nature of personhood, and probably almost all our laws will become inappropriate to some degree.