Evaluation of psychological continuity after death

• The problem with Parfit is how thoughts and ideas can exist without a thinker:

  • It is the self that holds together all the events in an individual's life and forms them into a connected narrative
• Both Dennett and Parfit's theories dismiss the idea of consciousness as the subjective experience of individuals:

  • Neuroscience cannot explain qualia
  • Some philosophers dismiss the reductionism of Dennett, which explained consciousness in terms of computing
  • Qualia are essentially subjective experiences