Partially Examined Life

On Reasons and Persons (1984), ch. 10-13. What makes a person persist over time?
After using various sci-fi examples to test the Lockean (personhood=psychological continuity), physicalist (same brain=same person), and Cartesian (same soul=same person) theories, Parfit concludes that the whole notion is incoherent and isn't actually what we care about when wondering "will I die?"
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[@rwess]

Identity It has more to do with recognition than memory or continuity.
The stuff you recognize as being typical of you, present and past, is your identity.
You are a feedback loop. Self-awareness, and even the illusion of free will, are artifacts of mental feedback loops.
- Just throwing that out there in case it loops back. If it does (and I recognize it), my identity is strengthened. 😁

[@philosophicalmixedmedia]

Such a nice cartoon to begin with but disappointed that the evocative click bate could not follow up with a dynamic animation given this is a visual medium and not a pod caste. Philosophy as it surpasses the verbose analytic is what's implied here. So learn to animate and give some dynamic elements to the rhetoric.