PHIL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: David Hume, Bundle Theory
10 Apr 2019
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"reasons and persons: genius at creating thought experiments, divided brains, consider a set of sci-fi cases, my brain is transplanted into a body. The new-body person is exactly like me in memories, character, etc. It seems that this person is still me: put more emphasis on the mental part of a person than the physical, half of my brain is destroyed, but my memories, character etc. remain intact. It seems again that this person is still me: assuming that each hemisphere is a full person. March 14: now we think bodies are more important to our selves than before, half of my brain is transplanted in one body, another half into a different body. Which is me: problem: selfhood can"t be two things! Now there are two candidates for the one person: 3 possible answers. I survive as one of x or y.
