PHIL 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Brain Transplant, Test Case

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1301
• Professor: karinavold

Document Summary

The technology we use can become a part of our minds, thereby extending our mental capacity. P1: persons remain the same even through bodily changes. P2: bodies do not remain the same through bodily changes. P1: persons can survive loss of body parts. P2: bodies cannot survive loss of body parts. C: persons are not bodies: question of personhood: And as far as this consciousness can be extended backwards to any past action of though, so far reaches the identity of that person; it is the same self no(cid:449) as it (cid:449)as the(cid:374) . One can repeat the idea of any past action with the same consciousness it had of it at first. 2 beings result: the perso(cid:374) (cid:449)/ your psy(cid:272)hologi(cid:272)al features a(cid:374)d le(cid:271)ro(cid:374)"s (cid:271)ody, the e(cid:373)pty hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)stituted (cid:271)y your for(cid:373)al (cid:271)ody (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h does(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e a(cid:374)y of you psy(cid:272)hologi(cid:272)al feature but is still alive. Which of those 2 beings is you: the psychological approach, the somatic approach.