PHIL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Personal Identity, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Anterograde Amnesia
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Wrapping up diachronic identity and talking about synchronic identity. Diachronic: what is it for a person to be one and the same over time. To locke it is a matter of psychological continuity. Later person-stages have to have remembrance of the experiences or earlier person-stages. Refined version makes it so that these memory links can be indirect. Anterograde amnesia, such as with lenny, raises a puzzle even to the refined version of locke"s theory. If a later person-stage could remember experiences had by an earlier, than another simultaneous person stage could do so as well. Ex. brain separation of two hemispheres into two separate bodies. Each would have new experiences, but also be able to remember back to pre-separation person stage. Then these two would be the same. Our theory psychological continuity seems as if it could be flawed. Locke also believes in the possibility of surviving the destruction of your body as.
