PHIL 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dissociative Identity Disorder, W Series
26 Sep 2016
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John locke: psychological continuity theory: has to be a flow of memory and charac- ter over time: with multiple personality disorder, there is a shift in a personality, but there is not a shift in body. There is only one body that doesn"t switch, but personalities do, which supports the psychological continuity theory. Bodily continuity theory: same body same person or same parts of the body for exam- ple the brain. Should a choose the original a body or. Under the psychological continuity theory a should choose b"s body, Under the bodily continuity theory a should choose a"s body. From this first-person perspective, it looks like bodily continuity theory is the most plausible. Williams argues that this shows that bodily continuity theory is indeed preferable. His brain now runs the body by remote control. He is where is body is (but this is refuted by thought experiments about brain transplants)
