PHL105Y5 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Vegetarianism, United States, Torture
PHL105Y5
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Memory Theory
∫ Who you are depends on memory
You are aware of who you are when you wake up each morning
❖ Even before you see your physical being
❖ Still remember what you’ve done, what you like, things you’ve
done even when awake in completely different body
❖ What makes you who you are is who you remember you are
❖ Mind switches along when body switches
Person-stage
∫ Brief moment of consciousness
❖ A person is a sequence of stretches of consciousness
all stringed together
❖ What makes these stretches single are the containment
of future and past memories
❖ Remember experiences
❖ What makes you who you are is the flow of memories
∫ Questions
❖ What if you can’t remember doing something? Does that
mean it wasn’t you who did it
❖ Gaps in them create breaks in identity
∫ Fix
❖ Little chains is sufficient to support the
theory
❖ Ex; remember something little->that little
remembers something simple->simple
remembers…..
❖ There are some kinds of preservation of
traits, desires, knowledge etc.…
Bishop butler’s challenge
∫ Distinguish real memories from apparent
memories
❖ Real memories are memories of
things that happened to someone
you
❖ Apparent memories are memories
of things that happened to
someone else
❖ Memory theory is about real
memories, not apparent
❖ You are not the memories that
never truly occurred in your life [
delusional history professor who
“remembers” losing the first
opium war ]
❖ Real memory caused by the exact
thing it a memory of , caused in
right way; experienced, stored
then retrieved
❖ Real memory is linked to the same
person, and the same person
should have their own memories
❖ Bishop Butler’s point is that
memory theory ends up being
circular and dependent of the idea
of “same person”
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Document Summary
You are aware of who you are when you wake up each morning. Even before you see your physical being. Still remember what you"ve done, what you like, things you"ve done even when awake in completely different body. What makes you who you are is who you remember you are. A person is a sequence of stretches of consciousness all stringed together. What makes these stretches single are the containment of future and past memories. What makes you who you are is the flow of memories. Gaps in them create breaks in identity. Little chains is sufficient to support the theory. Ex; remember something little->that little remembers something simple->simple remembers There are some kinds of preservation of traits, desires, knowledge etc. Real memories are memories of things that happened to someone you. Apparent memories are memories of things that happened to someone else. Memory theory is about real memories, not apparent.
