PHIL 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Procedural Memory
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Tommy vladek- phillip"s milk of amnesia for people who cant remember shit! We know that tommy is seriously disabled. The opportunity has come to transplant the brain of sam into tommy"s body; giving tommy a new life. No attempt has been made to give tommy a brain rejuvenation operation. It isn"t the same brain that is important it is the content that is important. Memory identity is the same person if you have the same continuity of memories. Things which are identitcal must also be identical to the same thing. B is the same person as a and b is the same person as c but a is not the same person as c because they do not have the same memories. Memory fluid the memories of great men and great women could be extracted from them as brain fluid and given to someone else, would they having all of that persons memory would they be that person.
