PHL145H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Brain Transplant, Personal Identity
22 Nov 2018
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Why does it matter: who cares whether i am the same person in the future or not, we care about future, we are responsible for things done in past. The person with as body remembers things that happened to b: memory presupposes identity and casual connection, one way to do it, brain transplant, another way, store information, pass it to other brain. It seems so: bother persons would agree they changed bodies. It seems that i am not my body (1) A different experiment: tomorrow you"ll be tortured, but don"t worry, you"ll forget the announcement, does that help, but you"ll forget everything else, better now, but you"ll have different memories. Is it okay now: but the memories will be copied from someone else, what about now. The two experiments: the second experiment seems to show that i can imagine me undergoing pain in the future no matter what changes happen to my psychological state.
