What the self is, and what makes you the same person over time.
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Episodes where it comes up most
Chris Letheby
- 1:35:46 “…know to what extent he does agree but if we both agree that we represent the self as being an entity with all these properties boundedness persistence free will and so on and…”
- 1:20:23 “…and so on yeah but but it is fair to say though that even in those cases the self is crucially involved because you're seeing yourself differently you're having insights in…”
Carolyn Dicey Jennings
- 5:40 “…a story that that can stand against many objections to the concept of the self mm-hmm I tried to provide a story of how this could work physiologically in a way that would…”
- 34:05 “…all it's about explaining perception and consciousness meant not about the self per se and so I think using it to argue against the existence of the self is is wrongheaded…”
Arnold Zuboff
- 40:19 “thinking about personal identity there's also a hard game and an easy game. The hard game, the usual view of personal identity…”
- 15:34 “It's called Finding Myself. Subtitle Beyond the False Boundaries of Personal Identity. So that's what it's called. And um what else would you like to know about? I was just wondering…”
Joe LeDoux and David Rosenthal
- 2:11 “attic consciousness a term barred from dental tolling in which the self is part of the experience so it's not just about seeing the Apple but it's knowing that it's…”
- 7:56 “…there's got to be some sense in which the detection of the danger involves the self even at the level where consciousness isn't involved schemas and that's the it's all put into…”
Evan Thompson
- 49:55 “…maybe some of your other work too is to argue for a distinctive notion of the self and and really all the exploration of consciousness in this various states really is is serving…”
- 55:54 “landscape and interactions other people and you don't think of the self in this kind of intellectualized mental way then um then you're not gonna you know swing into…”
Susan Schneider
- 23:37 “…the view that neuroscience is pointing to that that deflation ISM about the self seems most compatible with what we know about the brain see now I don't understand okay so…”
- 17:09 “…questions so you know like we'd like to talk about solutions to the puzzle of personal identity or to the mind-body problem they're fun in philosophy class and when we're like drinking with…”