PHIL 1200 Lecture 47: Lecture 47
15 May 2017
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But he is unable to think of him as being in the vat our outside, looking at it. He calls his body hamlet and his brain yorick. Sound implausible: would imply by switching bodies, one becomes a different person, most think that we would remain the same person even if our bodies were to change. If he were to go to jail, would they incarcerate his brain rather than his body. Avoids problem of previous but at some cost: one cannot be mistaken about where they are (always are where they think they are) This seems wrong (people in imax theatre thinking they are in a rollercoaster) Begin to think he is in both places at the same time he has parts of him in both places we would describe a situation this way if we were dealing with a machine. As a result, yorick is left with no sensory input at all.
