PHLA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Personal Identity, Reductionism
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You are being transported to a different planet/location. A machine scans your body and reincarnates you to the other location. Claim: the replica like having artificial eyes. You haven"t told me that my replica is me! Having a replica but dying is just as good as living. identity. The claim this is the same club would neither be true nor false. Wait, maybe there is some fact we don"t know, or maybe the members know. We can know everything there is to know, but there is still no objective answer. He says yeah it"s no big deal. What matters are the facts that our psychology and body reduce to. Therefore, having a replica and dying is just as good as living normally. If i know i"m going to die in 2 days im gonna act differently! Yes, your still you but you just have a weird memory. Changing your body and your psychology at the same time.
