Buddhism says we can have memories of other people and intentions that influence others. But normally they all just occur in the same like physical body with the same kind of continuity. So that's why we believe almost accidentally that there is this kind of identity that sustained metaphysically, like and persists over time.
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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