Fascinating. We are our bodies, not just separate 'souls' or consciousness floating around in a physical shell like religion or science fiction would have us believe.

There's a huge network of nerves in the gut/stomach area. One teacher referred to these nerves as our "second brain." We don't understand them nearly as well as our first brain.

TIMs will demand our body parts even more now, to become real TM women, that creeps the shit out of me.....

But fascinating, I never heard of this before .It's like organs nerves are part of our brain too and vice versa.

Transhumanists think that mapping the brain will reserve the human, but we are our bodies, not just a single disconnected organ.

Omg, this is the first time I realise, that organ transplants mean someone also receives es foreign DNA.....and this foreign DNA works in a different body and this somehow blows my mind right now, the donor becomes part of the recipients body and kinda gets partially a new life/lives on in a different way...

Our personality is like an avatar of our being - it represents a composite of many things mental and physical that goes on within us. Our 'avatars' typically change very slowly through our lives and these differences are only noticeable upon reflection. Thus who we were when we were very young is different than our adult personality in many regards.

Sudden changes in personality are unusual without something drastic occurring. Physical trauma to the brain is one such drastic change. Anything affecting our brain can affect personality. Even a mild stroke can cause personality changes. But also, extreme psychological trauma or events can modify a person. Many people change after the death of a loved one or some traumatic personal event.

But there is another cause we can be exposed to that can create change. Any time someone goes under anesthesia there is always a possibility of it affecting their brain. The longer they are under, the more potential but also repeated bouts of anesthesia increase the likelihood. The older we are when we receive anesthesia the greater the potential of brain effects.

Certainly when an organ transplant is occurring, the patient is under anesthesia for a long period of time. There is also a large disruption of blood supply which can also create brain effects.

It is more likely something like this that is creating the changes observed in those who have personality changes after organ transplants.

I read a book about a woman who got a heart transplant and noticed these types of changes. The mind-body connection is so fascinating!

"We know that cells from the donor are found circulating in the recipient’s body and donor DNA is seen in the recipient’s body two years after the transplant. This again poses the question of where the DNA goes and what actions it may have"

I wonder if the fetal DNA that is found in a woman's body after pregnancy could affect us. They noticed xy genes in some tissue in an organ in a woman's body, a woman who had a son, which led to some research. If it had been xx from a daughter, they would probably have assumed it was the woman's & not investigated further.

Is it possible that fraternal twins, triplets etc. also have DNA from their siblings? Whether their siblings survived the pregnancies or not? Or that those who are after a first pregnancy might also absorb or be influenced by some DNA left in their Mother's body by earlier pregnancies?

And there are people who don't know that they were part of a multiple embryo group, as might be indicated by the man, who had fathered children, who during surgery for something else, was found to have a partially developed, non-functioning ovary. Though it wasn't noted whether he had DSD or not.

What are the effects of this?