personal identity

• (personal identity as physical involving spatio-temporal continuity of the body and brain)what would a physicalist argue?

  that you cannot do without your brain and still be a person
• (personal identity as physical involving spatio-temporal continuity of the body and brain) if you have no brain then you have no...?

  memory, personality or thoughts
• (personal identity as physical involving spatio-temporal continuity of the body and brain) physicalists generally agree that to be the "same person" throughout life depends on what?

  the spatio-temporal continuity of a functioning body and brain
• (personal identity as physical involving spatio-temporal continuity of the body and brain) bodily identity is therefore what?

  more a case of spatio-temporal continuity
• (personal identity as physical involving spatio-temporal continuity of the body and brain) in other words...?

  your body/ brain occupies a unique location in space and time throughout its life
• (personal identity as metaphysical involving continuity of consciousness) to say that "I" has metaphysical identity of consciousness means what?

  that what is "really real" about persons is not something physical, but their unchanged conscious awareness
• (personal identity as metaphysical involving continuity of consciousness) hence Descartes'...?

  "I think therefore I am"
• (personal identity as metaphysical involving continuity of consciousness) memory is dependent on the what being self-aware?

  the "I"
• (personal identity as psychological continuity of personality and memory) the "bundle" theory is associated with the work of who?


  Derek Parfit
• (personal identity as psychological continuity of personality and memory) what does Parfit not believe in?

  the soul, or physical life after death
• (personal identity as psychological continuity of personality and memory) what does Parfit argue against?

  finding a single, definitive feature that enables a person to maintain an identity
• (personal identity as psychological continuity of personality and memory) why does Parfit argue against finding a single, definitive feature that enables a person to maintain an identity?

  because as we pass through life, we evolve and develop
• (personal identity as psychological continuity of personality and memory) therefore...?

  nothing is a defining feature as our features are constantly changing
• (personal identity as psychological continuity of personality and memory) so, what is the bundle theory?

  the idea that death is just another part of life, which is impermanent
• (personal identity as psychological continuity of personality and memory) Parfit believes we don't have a...?

  fixed identity
• (personal identity as psychological continuity of personality and memory) there is no such thing as "self", why?

  because individuals are bundles of ever-changing states of being
• (personal identity as psychological continuity of personality and memory) what does this mean?

  there is no "self" to survive death
• (personal identity as psychological continuity of personality and memory) but what continues?

  the ever-changing combination of mental and physical energies occurring during this life
• the neurons in your cerebral cortex won't change, but what will?

  your body, memory and personality
• what does TTS stand for?

  temporary terminal states
• what does TTS refer to?

  a snapshot of the totality of a persons physical and psychological states
• your body and psychology will...?

  stay the same
• Parfit concludes that we have to abandon what?

  any idea of some enduring "identity" in persons
• in Parfits view, you have continuity with who?

  your ancestors
• in Parfits view, you have continuity with your ancestors through what?

  psychological connectedness
• equally, when you die, your children will be psychologically connected to you
• BUT...?

  you do not survive in any deeper sense