Do You Really Know What's Going On?

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I'm happy that he believes that I think he was a committed utilitarian for better or worse, but I don't know that this argument genuinely leads to that conclusion. And in part, maybe it's because- Wait, what? Well, it's ranching in the fall, like fusing in the spring. It's not as crazy as pushing a fat guy off a bridge. Yeah. Okay. So let's get to some of the cases that he brings upBecause I have a pretty high tolerance for convoluted cases,. But I also kind of feel like you that these aren't cases that are as crazy as like trolley cases.

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.