T-I-O is an intriguing variation in human experience. Dr. Zeeman from the University of Exeter coined it. It's not a disorder, but one way of thinking of it is does it intrude on your normal functioning in everyday life? That must be why people don't know that they don't have it, right? I mean, that they have it. Yes.
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.
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