The Relationship Between Consciousness and Personal Identity

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I find this topic for whatever reason to be, maybe like consciousness, something that I can't fully wrap my head around because you can go full reductionist on personal identity. And also like you were asking off air like connections with Buddhism. I think this is very, there are deep connections here. Especially the kind of Buddhist idea that all we are is our thoughts and our bodily sensations. Which is a view that Hume had too. Like it's not, yeah. Exactly.

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.