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Ep. 261: Derek Parfit on Personal Identity (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Pain Vampires

"I don't want to go through that pain, but I kind of more agree with Locke. My intuitions say that I might be willing to sell an hour of my time in absolute agony if that me that was being tortured is not something I'm gonna remember," he says. "There's a nice little passage at the end of 85, because remember Parfett's trying to argue in favor of a reductionist view."

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