What Does He Say About Memory?

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When I believed that my existence was a further fact, I seemed imprisoned in myself. My life seemed like a glass tunnel through which I was moving faster every year and at the end of which there's darkness. When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in open air. This is so Buddhist sounding. Some may find it so, but I find it liberating and consoling.

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.