Thread: not sure if this post goes here but what do you think

Ok, I agree that a person with a brain transplant or rather a person with a whole body except for brain transplant would probably have way more of the personality from the brain, however I think due to hormones and body fitness and body image etc, I think that the personality of the person whose brain it was would change drastically, and some of the changes would bring this personality closer to the personality of the person whose body it used to be in some ways because the hormones and body fitness level etc would lead the personality to changes in that direction. So while the person would not be the person whose body it was, they would not be the same personality as the personality in that brain with previous body. Someone who used to know them both might I think see that some of the changes in personality could remind them of the body's owner's previous personality.

And I am still not fully convinced about the "core" staying the same. It may or may not. I personally changed so drastically that it is hard to identify what staid the same, and if one does not find specific parts that staid the same, can one truly say that a "core" is the same? What is that core? If it is not moral values and it is not what is important to me, then what is it: what makes me still the same person and not someone else? I am always me in the present, but am I the same one as I was 25 years ago? If I no longer think / feel / judge / value / perceive the same, what is part of that "core"?

Another thought: if someone had amnesia, to the extent of not remembering who they are and who their loved ones are, are they still the same person at the core - their personality would thoroughly change and their prior experience would not consciously influence who they are, so at what point do we say that the core is no longer the same?

Just to clarify: I am not saying that I believe there is no core, what I am saying is that I am questioning whether there is a core or not, and if there is what is part of that core. I am a Christian so I guess I would prefer to believe that there is a core and call it a soul, but I am an open minded individual who likes to question fundamental stuff like that to reach a better existential understanding. My understanding is that Buddhists believe that the distinction of self versus non-self is a false dichotomy, and part of me sees where they are coming from, while another part of me really wants to reject that and insists that there is a self that is separate and eternal but I do not have the evidence to support that claim.