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Been thinking about this for a while now, but does memory loss make the character someone else? Like if character A lost the last let’s say 5 years of their memories, but they are married to character B who they only met like 4 years ago, is character B now in a “relationship” with a completely different person?
What I’m trying to ask I suppose, is that in this kind of scenario do the memories make A (well, A) or is it the well… the “body”? Because from As perspective, B is now a stranger, while B faces the dilemma of whether they should stay with A despite them not knowing B, or “abandon ship” so to say since this “different version” of A that is different to the person they have come to love. That they might as well be a stranger. Yet so many stories I’ve seen over the years show how B would stay with A despite the memory loss, making it seem like the physical body makes the person rather than the memories/ personality traits. (Which for the sake of this complaint we shall say are all gone from As brain). And I appreciate that leaving the partner early on in the memory loss process would not make sense because they might get their memories back, but what are the chances of that actually happening in real life? Especially if the memory loss is due to a serious brain injury?
I know, a must random thing to contemplate in the middle of the night, but I wanted to put it out there in case someone else is also contemplating this must important dilemma.
…(So is A the “same person” after losing their memory or “someone else”?)