I'm a Dogmatic Slumber, I've Got Some Time to Sleep.

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"I'm a dogmatic slumber," he writes. "It took it like took I burned calories reading this paper in a way that I don't often." The one thing it doesn't do that people add now is like a million citations, the professor says. But there was just less of that structure wasn't as set down as it is now. It almost feels more conversational.

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.