Personal Identity: Crash Course Philosophy #19

41 thoughts on “Personal Identity: Crash Course Philosophy #19”

1. This is so philosophicalcalcalcal I love it

2. Great video love it,,,,

3. Most sci fi is fantasy, but dr who is really fantasy.

4. Mabey your personal identity is like money or free will its a concept that is required for our society to function more deeply for us to function as individuals?!

5. Why is everyone without a confirmed gender female?

6. memory has been fascinating to me since i listened to malcolm gladwell's podcast and the double episodes about memories. what he said that really sticks with me is "the lesson of that story is that only a fool accepts the evidence of his own memory for gospel. the lesson of this story is: we are all fools".

7. philosophers: the only thing that stays the same: your name!
   me: trans silence

8. You can sometimes back up memories objectively through photos, and video.

9. O M G his BABY PICTURES HANK U R SO CUTE

10. I think personal identity is composed of the continuity of existence itself in the form of our memories and brain patterns and that slow subtle changes don't disrupt that continuity. This does happen to imply a method of moving minds between substrates that sustain them, that being that if substrates were exchanged fluidly where one offloads one function at a time but all functions still work together. I like to think of this in terms of mind uploads. One function at a time, yet still a complete and continuous experience then your mind has been transferred.

11. It seems to me that if there can never be a definitive determination of what constitutes an "identity" the term can never be better than relative.

12. can you do gender

13. there are so many doctor who references in these videos

14. There are many people who have short bursts of memory from birth or as babies… ? (just saying it's not as concrete as you say, yes no one has complete memories of being a baby, but there are exceptions…)

15. What about Aquinas and hylomorphism

16. i deserve the paycheck because my past self wrked hard it for and would like my future self to have the check

17. I'm getting some strong Ghost in the Shell vibes from this.

18. hi

19. I love how he uses she when referring to the boss in last example. How feminist of him.

20. I don't think memory defines identity. I believe that it's based on our conciousness and the only cells not replaced at some point in our life is cells in our cerebral cortex. So this makes me think thats where our soul/conciousness is

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22. If I worked 30 days of the month, and I loose my memories in an accident the 31th of that month, I loose my identity. Then, does my boss has to pay me for that month of work?

    Even more, if I die, should she still pay that money to my account?

23. I hope to live as a spiritual being…"Self has really two meanings, or is used in two senses," "one is self, the identity of the individual created by God." "The other self is the ego, the dark, animalistic heritage each one of us has, the lower nature that can develop into a monster of selfishness, brutality, lust and so on." ~ Baha'i Faith

24. Davros… lulzies.

25. The thing is that you use memories from the beginning of your life otherwise you won’t be able to talk, walk, you won’t have all your basic behavioral and emotional stereotypes. The fact that you don’t have memories about actions doesn’t mean that you don’t have all other types of memories that define you as a person.

26. A transgender person will claim that they are the ''same'' person, legally and socially, as that which they were before the reassignment surgery / procedures.  Further, given that the Law in most countries would still prosecute a transgender person for any crimes done (if discovered) when the transgender person was of the prior form, it is clear that the Law regards a ''person'' as an entity of a distinctly continuous DNA.   Therefore, ''gender'' and ''person'' are (now) two different things.

27. Gregory House best doctor. Hands down.

28. I think a more pressing example of personal identity are people put in comas or who have had massive neurological damage. If we imagine a married couple and one of them is injured in such a way, when does the surviving spouse' obligation end? Some would say never, because the coma patient is still alive. Others would argue that the body is still alive, but that the person, the identity, is gone.

29. our DNA can be our essential property as well as our biological relation, they never change or finish.

30. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed.

31. What about DNA

32. I like to believe that our identity it something that has to deal with our personal expeirence in life. If i were to have my memeroies erase,i would consider my self to differenet because i would have loss of my personal memories

33. Identity is a label applied by humans, or possibly by other sentient beings as well. Therefore you are you if the majority of people around you (including you) believe you are you. This can change (if I somehow am convinced that I was possessed/replaced by Elvis and I convinced everyone around me, I say I would be Elvis, but good luck getting that to happen).

34. This subject still gives me a headache. I've been thinking about it for 3 years, since my philosophy classes in high school, but I still don't have any answers. I feel like everyone has good arguments, but at the same time, each argument has major flaws, but then don't appear as ones if you really think about it, like, it never ends (just see the comment section). I have an opinion on every single subject that I know of (can't have an opinion on smth you've never heard about, right?), but not this one, it's really frustrating.

35. Where those sweet sweet citations at?

36. This was really as I was writing a paper comparing Kant and Hume's views on the self in my online philosophy class!

37. well I am firmly of the opinion that if I get Alzheimer's I need to die because I do not want to experience a losing my mind losing myself

38. the thing is and yet that personality traits are fairly consistent across time, if I'm not mistaken the literature indicates that people that are neurotic as adults were fussy as infants meaning that they have the same traits across time

39. no I don't think I'm the same person that I always was in fact I'm glad I'm not if I were to meet the 13 or 15 or 20 year old version of myself now I would probably hate them

40. Another error with the memory theory is it ignores your subconscious

41. Alright here’s my two cents,

    Identity is an illusion created for our society. If we were say caveman we wouldn’t care about our identity we would just do what we have to do to survive.

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