That's what makes me worried. If we are as a living being become what we are from memories and experiences, will we still be ourselves if we delete our whole memories?
Like, for example, let's say Person A becomes a compassionate person because of A's childhood memory and experience. If we delete that will A still become compassionate? Well, me personally would say yes, but A's compassion will have no basis since the base experience is already gone... And repeated memory deletion might even erase that already fleeting compassion... Changing it into whatever A recently experienced.
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A Theseus ship paradox but brain? Uhhhh
Ah the classic question of what is the true self. Are we just mish mash of experience (e.g. memories, lessons, culture )? or is there an unchanging core? The answer is yes. Let's break this down. 1) There is a core character, and you can know what it is by giving a person absolute power. You can said they will act according to what their prior experience taught them, which is true... For a certain period of time, but eventually the core character emerged once the realization that absolute power transcend prior experience. For example, ask a person to list 100 things they will do as a god, the first maybe 25 things will be based on experience, the rest will be based on core character. 2) the expression of core character is adaptable. There is a myriad of way for a single piece of character to expressed itself. Compassion, for instance, can be expressed in term of giving charity, lending a shoulder, or teaching about the harsh world. What guided the expression of core character is experience. So a compassionate person will seek to act with compassion, and they will do so based on what they saw from others, from reading, or from a personal encounter. Erasing memories change the expression, but not the core character.
