Personal Identity & the Self

A pretty good introductory talk on personal identity and some of the philosophical issues that arise. The lecturer is Patrick Stokes of Deakin University and was given at the Ethics Centre. This comes from an episode of the podcast The Philosopher's Zone from a few years back titled "Personal identity: a primer".

#Philosophy #Mind

[owenbowler]

We are conscious in the present, we are aware of 'a' past.

[Locreai]

I am a soft of hyper dimensional conscious presence piloting a meat robot through a 3 dimensional spacio-temporal rift. These two parts correspond to one another less with each event.

[anupkumar]

Our memories/information about us is what makes "self". That seems almost axiomatic. So then sure wherever all our memories/information is stored is physical locus of the self. But why are we assuming that brains are the only place we our memories/information is stored? Why not in other parts of the body as well? There is the spinal cord? And then there is the peripheral nervous system? The network of neurons in the gut are almost equal to the size of a small mammals brain.

[tomasomaonaigh]

I managed to get to 34mins, Stokes is, imo, as my granny used to say, he's that smart, he's stupid.
What do I know.