PHILOS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Explicit Memory, Procedural Memory, Motor Learning
4 Dec 2013
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John locke and his theories of personal identity. God: god does not change, no puzzle because he is eternal, unalterable and everywhere. Angels: finite spirits/ have their identity in the unbroken history from their creation- no change. Do not change- identical over time and space. Theres a difference between a mere mass of atoms from a system o fatoms. Plants: living things differ from mass of matter. The same parts of oak are organized into the same living system- partaking of one common life. One plant with such organization is one system. Like plants animals are systems of matter- the atoms that make it up contribute to the same life (organism) But unlike descartes, locke does not deny that animals have pleasure. Like plants/animals: what makes a human organism the same over time is the sameness of the living system.
