The Zombies or No, but for Ad Hoc Reasons

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The veil of ignorance, like some of these fail. And even in parfits, sometimes I'm like, whoa, your intuitions actually aren't my intuitions. What's interesting is when you don't know, so Bernard Williams has a paper around this time as well. He starts out with two people are going to be put to sleep and when you wake up, it's going to be to the deal. But afterwards, one of the two people will be given $100,000 and the other will be tortured.

Tamler’s earlier self committed to doing an episode on Parfit, and David holds his current self to that promise, which shows how unconvinced David was by Parfit’s skepticism about personal identity. Or something like that. We argue about the value of Parfit’s sci-fi thought experiments and the implications of believing there’s no clear sense of “me.” Plus, we talk about a recent article on aphantasia – the inability to conjure images in your mind – and the question that pops into everyone’s head when they hear about this condition.