PHIL 1423 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Empirical Evidence, Thought Experiment, John Locke
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Afterlife: any continuation of a person"s life (finite, eternal) after their biological death. Immortality: always exist, never any end to its existence. Belief that we never cease to exist psychological and body criterion and brain. Bc: we are the same person at a later time if we have the same body. Pc: we are the same at a later time if we have the same mind. Brain c: a single functioning brain constitutes personal identity biographical life vs biological death. Biographical life: the life we lead (events, feelings, thoughts, activities) Biological death: ceases to be a living organism impressions and ideas through sense experience impressions are livelier than ideas :using sensations --> impression are produced perfect and imperfect identity thomas reid. Perfect identity: the only example of a perfect identity is their own self as it is indivisible. Imperfect identity: a linguistic convenience to call things " the same" even though they are really only a continuous with one another.
