Parfait is a strong consequentialist and also a Sijwickian rationalist. He thinks that this means that we should be less selfish and less afraid of death, relevantly for you. If there is no such thing as continuity of identity, if there's nosuch thing as identity over time, then you caring about David 20 years from now is the same as me caring about anybody else. It all comes down to being impartial or not being impartial. That's the part.
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.
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