Don Page - Defining Personhood: Beyond Body and Mind

What does it mean to be a ‘person’? How do persons differ from other living things? Must all human beings be persons? Always? When does personhood start—during childhood, at birth, in the womb? Are you a person when asleep? Are people with severe mental deficiencies still persons? Severe brain injuries? What’s the importance of persons, anyway?

Don N. Page is a Canadian theoretical physicist at the University of Alberta, Canada.

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[peweegangloku]

This appears to me to be one of Robert's most genuine inner person expressions free from every form of caricature. Well done.
"I don't care how far you go" if you have another copy of yourself in another universe, his inner person experience will be teleported to you and you will definitely know that you are in two places at the same time. You will explain your experience to other people and not the other way around.

[AnarchoReptiloidUa]

Great channel. A comment to support. ❤

[ianrobbins]

Ok. We've crossed the line between sense and nonsense.

[TheEmptyBeing]

The point of reference is the distinction between the original and the copy.

[rc]

6:10 if genetic information, memories and experiences are stored only in molecular arrangements, that can be formed by similar elements, then two such bodies can be considered structurally but not atomically identical... and information-alone becomes the substance of identity 🤔

[TheEmptyBeing]

This discussion places a framework based on a perspective of ones own self-importance within it. Perhaps our consciousness is not as special as we make out.

[maruszewskisam]

This guy needs phenomenology, these analytics are clueless...

[AkbarKpk]

Is hegel dialectical thinking method more dependent of experience or more
independent of experience? for example as according to anaylitic philospher apriori conceptual analysis is independent of experience..plz answer anyone

[djtomoy]

I define a person by the numbers of deer they have hunted, skinned and eaten

[evaadam]

Person or Personhood is just man's vocabulary that attempts to describe your inner self, or your true being, which is NOT your physical body but your free aware immortal soul who is a free split of the Holy Spirit who has no beginning and no end...

...but, if you define your whole being as just an evolving physical animal body, then it would be inappropriate to call an animal (yourself) a person...

[williamburts]

Knowing that you exist defines personhood because to be "aware" is to be "self-aware"

[Maxwell-mvrx]

Fundamental perception in phiych is NOT perfect reality . Consciousness figuret out perfect physic reality in Impossible. He shows his solutions to physic perception of reality are rambling proceendings. Lack emperism details. No Sense.

[مرام-عث]

Oh people, we are your sisters, by God 😭😭😭 We do not even find a loaf of bread inside the house that would satisfy you, oh nation of Muhammad. People are brothers. Oh God, make your righteous servants subservient to us. Oh God, make your righteous servants subservient to us. My appeal to every Muslim, oh Lord, if he sees this message, may He prolong his life, make him happy, and cover him. May God reward him. God is sufficient for me, and He is the best disposer of affairs. There is no power or strength except with God. Oh people, oh nation of Muhammad, oh people of goodness, oh people of mercy. We are your sisters and your children. By God, we do not even find a loaf of bread inside the house that would satisfy you. Oh nation of Muhammad, I only spoke out of extreme hunger and distress. My mother, sisters, and I are displaced from our homes because of the war. We are in a state that no one knows about except God. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs, against those who brought us to this state 💔💔 By God Almighty, I only wrote this appeal out of extreme poverty and poverty, oh people. I beg you by God Almighty, Lord of the Mighty Throne, that I do not have food at home. By God, my brothers and sisters have been sitting around for two days. Without food, by God our situation is very difficult, we are 4 people in the house and my father passed away and there is no one to support us and we live in a rented house and we cannot pay the rest of the rent. I am not lying to you nor deceiving you nor cheating you. I am a Yemeni girl displaced because of the war between me and my family over a rent dispute and the owner of the house. By God, my brother comes every day and humiliates us and talks about us and wants us to go out to the street because we are unable to pay him the rent. The neighbors saw us crying and talked to the neighbors again and gave us a deadline until the end of the week and we swore to God to let us out of the street now we are in arrears of 60 thousand Yemeni riyals for 3 months rent may God have mercy on us our country is suffering because of this war and we do not find our daily sustenance and we live my mother and sisters our father passed away may God have mercy on him and we do not have anyone in the world to come to us in these harsh circumstances my little sisters went out to the street and saw the neighbors eating and stood at their door giving them even a piece of bread and by God in whose hand is the heavens and the earth they closed the door and kicked them out and they came back crying dying of hunger no one has mercy on them and now the holiday has come back to me if no one of us helps us with a kilo of flour by God we will die of hunger brother I seek refuge in God and then in you and I want your help for the sake of God I ask you by God you love goodness and help me even if it is about the rent of the house send me a WhatsApp message on this number 00967711013075 and ask for my card name and send it and do not delay may God compensate you with all good My little sisters, look at their situation and help us and save us before they throw us out into the street and humiliate us or my family and I die of hunger. We ask you by God, if you are able to help us, do not delay on us, and may God reward you with

[SRAVALM]

Is it really that the inner consciousness isn't the same, or the experience in consciousness?
Meaning: personality is one thing, and is other than the experience in consciousness; and too, familiarities become the normal or convention, therefrom partialities and biases arise, our inner mental construct form which we unconsciously use for measuring all, such as good and bad, attractive or repulsive etc.
Consciousness is like the air – there may be fires, and smoke seems to permeate and pervade the air, but then dissaptes the smoke does, and the air remains the same as it always was. What arises and falls away is the existential – this is what we get mixed up with. This is the non-self.

[Jinxed]

Very few CTT videos I couldn't finish, but this is one of them. Utter nonsense.

[Promatheos]

In the words of Wolfgang Pauli, he’s not even wrong. He doesn’t make enough sense to qualify for that.

[sujok-acupuncture]

The guest speaker being too imaginative, mind oriented ... has lost touch with reality...

[angeleverable]

"Please to meet you, hope you guess my name". Here's the problem: How could I convince him he was really I if I met a copy of me? Humans differ from animals and (thus far) Artificial Intelligence, by the degree of inner life, which is a product of genetic history, personal experience, and environment. No copy of me on a twin Earth could ever be me unless he, or perhaps she, shared all three.