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Ep. 261: Derek Parfit on Personal Identity (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Pain of Seth

The common element through all of it, starting out as Seth and becoming Napoleon, is that that pain never goes away. So really, if either one continues, we'd wanna call that the same person. You know, the brain doesn't solve everything because we can just imagine the gradual changing in the brain... And then we have to ask, well, you know what, I don't know, now I don'tknow.

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