
PREMIUM-Ep. 261: Derek Parfit on Personal Identity (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Idea of Death Is Incoherent
If i go to sleep and instead of having a heard attack, someone takes two halves of my brain, puts hem in different bodies. I don't just not wake up, but where do i wake up? You know, one person is in florence and the other is in vermont. And then there's just two exactly similar people whose movies are just beginning or that you wake up in both places. Maybe i'm just convinced by parfet that it's indeterminate, and it's a kind of non question.
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