Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20151211051732/@comment-26463535-20151230080456

Eclipse-Magician wrote: I think that, rather than getting scientific, this is getting psychological. It depends on what you believe in. I'll split it up, say, into the 'Original' and 'Spirit' for the lack of a better explanation. The Original is the 'shell', while the Spirit is the hermit crab that can move shells. If the shell is gone and the crab finds a different body, then simply the shell -- Original -- is gone and the crab -- Spirit -- finds a different body. It depends on who you consider the person - the Original body or the Spirit that contains their personality. One thing wrong with that. The body is not simply the lamp which the soul is trapped in. They are intertwined so that you can't truly have one without the other. So the soul and the body work to define a person. Memories are recorded in the brain but experienced and emotionally felt by the soul. That means such a transverence of consciences as you're describing either wouldn't work in the first place or kill the two people involved.

Besides, the whole thing is OP with no possible way to safeguard against. I would suggest kicking it and taking up Spirited's suggestion. Seeing someone else's memories without re-wiring the entire brain wouldn't affect the whole person too much, there would just be the jarriness of experiencing the memory and the soul's own emotional response from experiencing the memory.