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

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The Normal Everyday Thinking About Identity

I couldn't decide whether we get a drift of just the kind of naive question about who am I? And we have the question of, if I confront teleportation, am I going to die? That's one of them. But it seemed like in a sort of normal everyday way, that's not a tele transporter kind of sci-fi one. Is you run into this question with all kinds of changes that might happen to you, be them psychologically or physical and you ask yourself the question?"

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