What if minds could switch bodies?
II. What if you could construct a body and summon a mind into it? III. What if, upon entering a body, you had amnesia? 3. What if minds could switch bodies? Suppose that the minds that inhabit physical bodies could switch at will. On a lark, you could pop over and inhabit my body, and I would spend a while living inside of yours. A man could spend time living in a woman’s body; a woman could spend time inside a man’s body. A person who normally has white skin could spend time in a body with black skin — and a person with black skin could live as a white. A person confined to a wheelchair and unable to coordinate their muscles could transfer their self into the body of an athlete, and an athlete could spend time inside a disabled body. An adult or old person could switch into the body of a newborn, a child, or a teenager — and vice versa. In such a world, where people could mix and match bodies at will, you wouldn’t know what kind of a “soul” existed behind a person’s eyes until you s
