It was amazing to read all your comment to the Death question part 1 posting. When I wrote it I had a question in mind, but it was fascinating how different people saw different things in it. Some saw it as a way of sickness, some as a way of therapy, some of the meaning of the question ‘what am I’? Isn’t it amazing how we can all look at the same thing and see something completely different?

And I have had some basic comments telling me I was too rude. That I did not accept people answers but rather kept asking, playing devil advocate. I apologize if anyone took me as rude, it did not meant to be like that, but simply my way of clarifying things I don’t understand. I do it to myself all the time 

So now let me try and focus a bit more of the question of what am I, and am I anything more than the sum of my memories?

Let’s make some hypothetical though experiments and imagine that we have the technology to transfer minds (not only brains, but mind with all your memories and way of thinking)

- If someone or something got your mind, would it be you?
- If someone else’s mind replaced your own, in your own body, will you still be you, or will you be the other person?

Now try to meditate on erasing your memories,

- First you lose your past, the good and bad
- Then you lose your knowledge, you don’t know where you live, you can’t take a bus
- Then you lose your language, and the ability to think in concepts – a house, a bus, a door they are all learnt concepts
- Then you lose your recognition of things sounds, feelings, we learn that red is red, we learn that this is cold and this is hot, every time something touches you is a new feeling.

So what’s left? Is it still you?