Wednesday, December 16, 2009

My Identity Is Personal

Two cartoons on personal identity:
  1. Does physical or mental continuity matter? Let's think about teletransportation...


  2. Perhaps our identity is all in the way we're arranged:

    Where's Soul Meet Body?
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  1. MattDecember 18, 2009 at 2:31 PM

    Cryongenics and is applications raise interesting personal identity questions. Also, I don't know if anyone has seen The Prestige but *SPOILER ALERT* something simliar to what was in the cartoon happens to Hugh Jackman's character.

    Related:this is kind of neat-- http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/identity.htm

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  2. Sean Keegan-LandisDecember 19, 2009 at 6:50 AM

    Great link! And The Prestige is a great movie.

    One of my favorite bloggers (economist Robin Hanson) is an advocate of cryonics. As part of his advocacy, he argues for the psychological account of personal identity against incredulous nay-sayers.

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