PHI-10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Reductionism, Bundle Theory, Personal Identity
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Psychological criterion psychological continuity is the same. Narrative identity (narrative criterion) first person (like memory criterion), one and the same person over time if it flows with your narrative. Recent therapy attempts to integrate all of the alters, can take at least 5 years. We are who we are in so far as we experience things. Hume claims we don"t have an idea of self because the self cannot be derived from any. Idea - another type of perception, mental representation of an impression sort of impression. It must be some one impression that gives rise to every real idea. But self or person is not any one impression, but that to which our several impressions and ideas are supposed to have a reference. Hume claims that sensations, like pleasure, pain, joy, etc succeed each other and can therefore never all exist at the same exact time. Memories are transitive, therefore there is no such idea.
