What is an identity of a person? A question and answer from Gemini

 Who am I? What is my Identity? How am I defined? These are deep questions that has bothered us and still bothering us. 

The following question was posed to Bard, an earlier implementation of CoPilot. It is interesting to note that Bard and Gemini differ. Gemini thinks, it is the head that matters. Ok. What if the consciousness is distributed at the cell or even finer level? Also, Bard missed the initial assertion that the wife in confusion made the choices and nt after thinking. Note that Gemini tries to give a definite answer.

A man and his son are walking in a forest. Some bad elements cut-off their heads. The man's wife prays to the goddess. Goddess says, no problem. Just attach their heads and I will give them back life. The wife in confusion attaches the head of her son to her husband's body and husband's head to her son's body. They come alive. Now who is the husband and who is the son? 

This riddle hinges on the fact that after reattaching the heads, the bodies come alive but their identities are switched.

Here's the answer:

• The husband's consciousness is now in the son's body. The head contains the memories and personality, so even though it's attached to the son's body, it's still the husband.
• The son's consciousness is now in the father's body. Similarly, the son's head with his memories and personality is now on the father's body.

So, physically, their bodies are swapped, but their identities are determined by their heads (containing their consciousness).