Multiplicity

According to what we've read, the surest way to make a brain/mind specialist giggle is to suggest the existence of an original personality intrinsically tied to the brain. In fact, personality itself is a very slippery concept to them, and some of them seem to regard it as a load of peanut butter. There is no one place in the brain where either memory or personality are stored. Personality is in and of itself a social construct.

We have a birth person. She is alive and well, but you will never see her. I am most assuredly not her.