PHIL 1 Lecture 11: Phil 1 Lecture 11
Document Summary
The third night: brain, body, and memory, brain, body, and memory i. Death: what is death, feldman"s enigma of death , proposed definitions and counterexamples. Objections: memory gaps (fixable with memory chain, false memories a. (not fixable in a non-circular way?, heavenly duplicates, not fixable without adding a no competition clause (which is weird) Immortality not possible: not consistent with our intuitions that we could have a different body, or that a mind could exist without a body, not consistent with our intuition that in brain/body transplants. Consistent with: the fact that we are able to judge our own identity without examining our bodies, the idea that we should anticipate the future experiences of our psychologically-continuous future self, the judgement of the survivor. I am julia north : the majority"s institutions that what is important for people to be who are consists of psychological or mental properties.
