Without Her Body In John Perry's The Third Night

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In John Perry’s The Third Night, Weirob argues that without her body, even if she maintains the same brain, she will not be herself. She uses the example of Julia and Mary Frances to try and persuade Miller and Cohen that because she has “never seen [her body, she has] no attachment to it” (Perry 48). If someone was walking down the street and saw his friend, that person would be recognized by his body and by his physical appearance. The same can be said if someone had to be identified in a police line up. The suspects are recognized by their physical characteristics, rather than their brain, their memory, or by their belief system. Weirob goes on to explain that if she were to be duplicated (her true self being A-Gretchen and her clone