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In our first full week of Paris one of the first few excursions we took was to a cemetery: Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise. The cemetery was massive, and had many famous people buried there, including one of my favorite playwrights Oscar Wilde. After wandering around the cemetery we went on a hunt to find his grave. Looking at it made me think about how he’s influenced my taste in plays and literature, and I reflected on one of his famous quotes is “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken”. In Neuroethics we discussed what it truly means to be yourself and whether the human identity is based solely on the brain, or other factors such as culture, people’s perception, and memory. One case we talked about was the potential of having a head transplant surgery – in which case you really can become someone else!

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