In Daniel Dennett's literary piece “Where Are They” recounts the hypothetical scenario of Dennett being approached by the Pentagon to undertake a dangerous mission in which he is asked to recover a lodged radioactive warhead deep underground. To recover the radioactive warhead, he must undergo brain surgery to completely remove the brain as the warhead's waves only affect the brain. (Page 34) In addition to radioactivity affecting the brain, the Pentagon wanted to monitor the brain's activity while underground, which was another reason for the operation. While Dennett is underground working on the warhead, his radio transmitters that send signals between his brain and body have begun to fail, causing him to lose control and sensation. The only thing that has to prove its existence is the ability to think. When he returns to the house where his brain is kept, the vat, he is shown a new body armed with receptors and transmitters connected to his brain. Dennett also discovers that a team of scientists overseeing the mission had made a computer copy of his brain and its functions. By being able to switch between sending and receiving the signal from the computer brain to the real brain, Dennett essentially has two brains sending signals to one body. A more disturbing development occurs in the possibility that one brain separates from the other brain, but is not connected to any body at all. This would cause the brain to exist without the original body. Dennett ultimately decides to lock both brains in the scientist's lab and move on with life, simply swapping brains via a portable control he carries with him. Daniel Dennett's scenario discusses the controversial philosophical question of mind versus body. The mind... half of the paper... Even if Hubert were connected to a different body and had the new body rob a bank, the new body would be the one in prison and not Hubert or Yorick or even DennettIn conclusion, based on these two thoughts on whether Dennett would be able to survive with or without his original brain (Yorrick), I believe Dennett would be able to survive without Yorrick. Hubert is just a replicated version of Yorrick and works exactly like the original. Hubert is just a prosthetic of Yorrick who could replace Yorrick if anything ever happens to the original. After Dennett went through the initial adjustment period, he found that his personality was largely preserved. Works Cited Dennett, Daniel. "Where are they?" Pleasure to Think: An Introduction to the Philosophy Reader. Eds. Stephen Hales and Scott Lowe. NY: McGraw-Hill, 2006. 33-44. Press.