In Where am I Daniel Dennett explore the issues about person’s identity. He uses a medical surgery for separation of body and brain to give explanation about his identity. The whole story is about a secret mission for the government to retrieve a radioactive warhead in the ground. To be able to be part of the mission Dennett needs a surgery where his brain will be separated from his body and will be replaced with artificial one, because this mission will damage his brain. His brain is put in a vat, where he can go and actually see it. The brain is connected with the body trough radio waves. The question that is raised in this story is “Where Am I?” (Dennett, Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology). Here is the theme about the personal identity, because thoughts are born in the brain, but at the same time how the body can still move without its brain. And we can see that the author’s brain is not in his body so how he can still move. But …show more content…
This example the author uses to explain about the soul” the massless center of my being and home of my consciousness” (Dennett, Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology). In one moment he is blind and the next he is in Houston without body. This whole traveling is done without any material doing it so then it must be something immaterial and that’s the soul “had a not changed location from Tulsa to Houston at the speed of light” (Dennett, Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology). Example that Dennett gives about the separation of his body and brain is that this is the time to go and commit crimes and only the brain will be in jail but his body will be