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What's a name for the impossibility of identity?
It appears to me that no two things can ever be identical, yet the notion that they can has been deployed rather without pause about a billion times in theoretical literature in philosophy and ...
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Can a persons continuity of consciousness be broken and a new person arise?
I realize that the person I am as I type these letters and the person I am at the end of this sentence is slightly different. Change occurs all the time and infact change within my brain is the reason ...
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If I upload my brain into a computer is it still me?
I think the answer is yes but I know a lot of people disagree. So, I would like to ask these people when exactly does it stop being me.
Let's say I want to upload my brain into a computer using the ...
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Does the 'too many thinkers' argument cripple Locke's conception of Man and Persons?
Does the too many thinkers problem present a counter-argument to John Locke's account of personal identity, if we apply it to his conceptions of Man and Person?
If so, how might Locke answer this ...
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Did Locke reject the idea that people had temporal parts?
I'm currently studying Locke's theory of personal identity and wondered if his writing rejected the idea that people had temporal parts.
Does anyone have any references that would support the idea ...
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How to account for the identity of books or theories? Inquiries into qualitative identity
I'm looking for articles or books that discuss how we account for qualitative identity.
The distinction between qualitative and numerical identity is often drawn, but then the discussion tends to veer ...
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What is identity? [closed]
Well we all have a intuitive sense of "identity", but what is it really?
We have all heard the "If someone makes a perfect copy of you and then destroy the original you, are you now the copy?" in ...
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Books/Pieces/Essays about self-worth? [closed]
I'm interested in reading some good books/pieces/essays about self-worth (ultimate meaning of life, learning, working, etc).
It's hard to precisely define the topic, but anything you think is ...
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How can one differentiate nonexistent entities?
How is it possible for things that do not exist to not be the same? How can one differentiate nonexistent entities? How can I know the difference between ghosts and werewolves if neither exist?
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When and why do we say that two things are the same
In a preceeding question I have asked about the foundations of rational reasonning. It seems the concept of identity plays a key role. However "identity" is not observed in the real world: our mind ...
