Is Audible the Same Company Once It Was Purchased by Amazon?

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Parfait: We have this language of personal identity that really makes us think that there is an underlying thing. But he always argues that there in fact is it. He wants to argue that most of the things that matter for survival are relations of degree. And so a person can survive, but it's not the same person. Or it's indeterminate whether it's the same people.

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.