Is There a Right Answer to This Question?

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There's no right answer to this question, but if you had like gun to your head, you would pick the third one. We know that people with split brains seem to have two streams of consciousness. It is a fact that you can survive with half of brain. So this is why this may be a difference between you and me. I don't have really good reason to think that other than pure physical continuity.

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.