PHIL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Great Ape Project, Central Nervous System, Dennis Amiss
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Leonard suffers a brain injury making him unable to make new memories . He can remember doing things from before the injury, but can"t remember at the end of. Memento"s lenny a minute what he was doing at the beginning of the minute. Can remember experiences had be lenny-before-the-accident. (l n . Can remember experiences had by lenny-before-the-accident. (l n-1 . But lenny-at-noon bears no direct or indirect links to lenny-at-11:00. It seems clear that it is the same lenny all through the story. So perhaps memory links , even in the refined sense we have proffered are not. Compare lenny with a case of multiple personality (mpd). It is not my remembering an action of mine that makes me to be the person who did it; If you ask a definition of identity, i confess i can give none; it is too simple a notion to admit of logical definition.
