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

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Counterintuitive Argument for Memory

Wes Parfit's argument is that you could have other people's memories injected into you and then you would recognize, even though you had those memories from a first person point of view. He says in that case, since you know that you didn't get them in the normal way, you know thatyou had them injected into you. If you just didn't actually have that connection between the memory and then you actually having done that in the first place, yourself, then we'll call it not actually your memory, we'll callIt a quasi-memory.

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