I'm Not a Fantasia, I've Always Been a 12 Year Old.

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The older you get, the more you realize maybe this came from either seeing myself talking or reading something I wrote when I was 12 and not even recognizing it. It's a little jarring to see what you said or thought that long ago. Sometimes. It's like, yeah, that's me. Other times it's like what? David: "I find that for personality traits, it's like me"

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.