Also how does memory theory of identity deal with the question that which of my memories are identical to me? Intuitively I won't get annihilated by losing many of my memories.
1. I am myself (literally, my self). 2. My self is my first person subject, my first person experience, unified and persisting. 3. If I lost memories I would still have 2. 4. Therefore the memory theory of identity is false regardless if what comes out of my mother is me or merely a part of me.
But I worry....Graham Priest says humans are obviously wholes (where my mother gives birth to me), but I want to say, like Dustin Crummett, that persons are simples (my mother gives birth to my body which contains me).
Also how does memory theory of identity deal with the question that which of my memories are identical to me? Intuitively I won't get annihilated by losing many of my memories.
ReplyDeleteThe usual formulation is that a single memory is enough to secure identity.
ReplyDelete1. I am myself (literally, my self).
ReplyDelete2. My self is my first person subject, my first person experience, unified and persisting.
3. If I lost memories I would still have 2.
4. Therefore the memory theory of identity is false regardless if what comes out of my mother is me or merely a part of me.
But I worry....Graham Priest says humans are obviously wholes (where my mother gives birth to me), but I want to say, like Dustin Crummett, that persons are simples (my mother gives birth to my body which contains me).