PL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Personal Identity
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Explains illusion in terms of the minds smooth transistion. Goes from one object to another as with resemblance, contiquity, and causation. Assumptions: the opposite of the same is different , all of our ideas come from experiences. Experiences a b c d (look different) but you study them the same. Don"t notice changes because they are slow and gradual. Changes in one thing can lead to changes in another. Memories tend to be interconnected- one leads to another. Identity is ambiguous in at least 3 things: same organism/creature, same mass, same person. Same mass: not shaped in the same way or used in the same way. Has all the same physical parts but can be arranged differently. Doesn"t have to follow a previous arrangement. Same person: something that stays the same while others change. Think of self as self and own memories. Something that persists through time-necessary to perform. Identity is a relation over time and connects to reasoning.