PHL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Frank Robert Miller
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Phl 201 - week 4 - lecture 11. Thought experiment: late 21st century + upload cure . Terminally ill, you have the option of uploading the contents of your mind to a bio-chip, placed in an organic computer housed in a robot. Having a body isn"t necessary to us. Free will: life is an illusion, we don"t make our decisions. Stating he has changed and isn"t the same person who killed x. If you have no recollection of what you committed, you didn"t do it. We"re concerned about the future and are responsible for our past. Testing identity theories: would the later you be responsible for the earlier you had done? (think: frank - robert) Depending on the theory people believe in. Accidental properties: object can gain/lose properties and still be the same thing. Essential properties: impossible for a thing to be what it is without the property. Soul: sameness of soul = sameness of person.
