The Swap of Perspective

I have a thought experiment for you. Imagine if the next time you go to sleep you wakeup in someone else’s body-mind. And they wake up in yours. A full swap. What would that be like? If your first reaction to that was, “Oh I would be surprised”, or “It would be so weird”, I have to caution you and clarify the setup. You inherit not just their body, but also their mind. So your old thoughts and feelings and memories are left behind for them to pick up, and you start off from where they left their mental state. “Aha” you say. “That means I won’t be surprised, it would be like any other day I wake up.. or wait they wake up.. Ummm I’m confused”. Yes, exactly! If we swap only the first-person experiencer between two body-minds, we end up with something that is impossible to tell apart. Not just for an outsider, but even for the two people that are swapped. It would be a normal day for both of them. Someone with a scientific or physicalist bent of mind might object here. What do we even…