PHL201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Psychology Today
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It is intuitively true that i am the same person i was 10 years ago. You can swap bodies and still be the same person (ex. Locke would describe freaky friday as a man being inhabited by the person. Person a = person b if the thinking thing a = thinking thing b. A person is capable of realizing that it is here now, but used to be in other places in the past. Consciousness of past perceptions = memory of past perceptions. Memory theory of identity pn=pm if pn remembers being pm. You can only remember your own past, not anyone else"s. If pn at tn is conscious of being pm at tm, then pn = pm. ** even if you get a new body you can thus still be the same person if you remember being that person ** Cut off your hand and its no longer part of you, it doesn"t remember being you.
