in the movie "toy story 3", mister potato head briefly transfers his eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hat, and feet to a cucumber, and takes that shape until his potato body is recovered. (1/7)

this begs an interesting question. if mister potato head can operate without his potato head/body, then where is the seat of his consciousness? clearly he does not have a "brain" inside the potato part of his body (sensical, since it's one big storage cavity). (2/7)

does the entity that is "mister potato head" consist of any or all of his features pinned on to any surface? is there one essential feature that carries the consciousness? (and if so, what if that one isn't used, or stored inside the body cavity?) (3/7)

or maybe there has to be a critical mass of potatohead features on any one vegetable to make the consciousness come to life... and if so, then are the other parts inert, or do they carry some essential part of the potatohead-being in them regardless of their disposition? (4/7)

or maybe mister potatohead and his kin - having no spine or central nervous system - are some sort of a system of autonomous yet interlinked clusters of neurons distributed over the totality of the form - all parts of mister potato head carry the totality of the being. (5/7)

even then though, if i make a mister potato head, and i then take the pieces i didn't use on MPH1 and out them on, say, a zucchini, do they share the same consciousness, are they each a discreet but equal potatohead entity... (6/7)

or do they share the same traits, memories, and emotions up to when they were grafted to separate bodies - at which point they diverge into individual experience? (7/7)