Is There a Mind's Eye?

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The two podcasters were initially on the same page with experimental philosophy and then you took a sharp turn. I think we're probably going to have different reactions to that paper just because our expectations for it were so wildly different. Maybe we'll meet in the middle. Oh yeah, there's that example where the branches start out branching and then they kind of fuse back together. We merged hard on Lila from Deadwood. Yeah.

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.