PP111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Empirical Evidence, Banana, Gautama Buddha
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But their body is the same: problem: the idea of the afterlife is incomprehensible, problem: switch bodies. You still identify as who you are, but you now have a different body: instead, there is something in the body (an immaterial soul or mind) that remains the same as the body changes. The soul as an enduring self: traditional western view is that inside each living body is a soul, the soul is not physical. It is immaterial or spiritual: this soul is the self. Because the person is the mind, the person merely has a different body. Problems: if there is no enduring self, all the care we take for our future makes no sense. Movie: rembrandt painted himself over the years. Then goes to holland: memory works like a string that holds beads together, david hume & buddha there is no self, all you are is a collection of thoughts & feelings.
