Is Borsh Putting Money Into My Retirement?

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"I'm not against this idea. I just like it when Borsh is telling me, you know, painting the picture of the immortal and the fact that his identity is blending into all the like," he says. "There's part of my brain that gets tickled in the way that a Borsh story can tickle me also gets tickled by fantastical puzzle 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.