PHL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Quasi, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Mind
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Phl 201 - week 5 - lecture 12: Implication example: if your dog was hit by a car and had a leg amputated at the hospital, we wouldn"t go to the hospital and say that he/she wasn"t our dog anymore because we they are missing a leg. Soul theory: one doesn"t need a soul to be themselves. Soul switch: changing your thoughts and still be the same person. Memory theory: john locke and gottfried leibniz. Persons are numerically identical if they possess at least 1 experienced memory. If you don"t remember it, you didn"t do it . 11 year old kid in vermont breaking a bone in his hand. Personal experience connects the 11 year old you to the 30 year old you; unique experience. Factual: jfk was murdered in x year. Allows one to inhabit more than 1 body (reincarnation) She isn"t the grandmother you grew up with .
