Why Our Identity is Not What Matters

Beyond Meaning: The Hidden Science of Thought by WordWeaver Productions

Episode notes

Happy new year folks! Creating this episode brought me much joy and I am looking forward to sharing it with you all.

We get into new concepts, ideas, thought experiments and stories in this episode by exploring how psychological continuity impacts the way in which we make sense of the world through the first person experience that is afforded to us by the cartesian ego.

We start this off by discussing the continuity loops illustrated following the thinking model created by Derek Parfit which essentially argues that the differences between different persons are extremely important, but does not consider the differences between the same person at different times to be important at all.

Parfit argues that this makes self-interest theory vulnerable to attack from two directions. It can be compared t ... 

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