
Episode 124: Dr. Strawson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Episodic Life
Very Bad Wizards
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The Diachronic View of Memory
He challenges what I believe is a dominant view in philosophy and psychology about how we experience our lives. His target is two targets, the psychological narrative thesis and the normative narrative thesis. He goes into a lot of detail to try to argue against them. That's the diachronic view. When you have this memory, you think of it as you and an episodic person. You have these memories but you don't identify with the person in those memories.
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