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PREMIUM-Ep. 261: Derek Parfit on Personal Identity (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Are You About to Die?

A non reductionist, though could just say, well, we can still do william's pain experiment, right? And they would just say, it doesn't matter whether you're greta garbo or mark. What i mean by identity is the subject of the experiences, the person who's feeling the pain. So i keep you in pain the whole time, that's your or transitioning. Transition, turning from mark into g Greta garb and all that qualiiative change doesn't matter, because you're still a numerically identical subject. Even if your molecule or cell by cell changing the brain, while somehow there's still some sort of numerical identity maintained.

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