Personal Identity: The Stream of Consciousness
- Created by: Olivia Grace Matthews
- Created on: 11-01-16 14:06
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- Personal Identity: The Stream of Consciousness
- Co-Consciousness
- Formalised by Dainton in 'the phenomenal self'
- Synchronic: Conscious of both at the same time (sight and sound)
- Diachronic: Relies on claim that experiences have a duration
- Constructs it out of the temporal overlaps between experiences in different streams
- Auditory experience bridges the gap
- Can we tell where one experience ends and another begins?
- Consciousness and Time
- We seem to experience time flowing
- Suggests our experiences should have temporal length
- Stream of C vs. Soul theories
- No direct evidence for where soul might be
- You'd know if your stream of consciousness got switched with someone elses
- Stream of C vs. Body theories
- Problem was where it moved without your body
- If stream continues in new body your identity continues. If it stops you are dead
- Stream of C vs. Physiological Theories
- Can you copy stream of consciousness?
- If not, its strongly in favour of the phenomenal model
- Would it be yours if its possible?
- Duplicate Streams
- Dainton's model is open to splitting
- Unconsciousness
- Model says you exist as long as the stream of C is maintained
- Our streams of C get interrupted all the time
- If you don't remember things when you were at a party did 'you' not go?
- Phenomenal model suggests that every time you go to sleep you wake up as a new person
- What matters is capacity to maintain stream of consciousness
- Hybrid Models
- Stream of consciousness and bodily capacity for consciousness = solves bridge problem
- Dainton's model allows to handle sleep at the expense of complicating teleportation
- Derek Parfit
- Personal Identity is not what matters
- We should only care about psychological continuity
- Gets around the problem of our identities changing over time
- However his approach is purely about anticipation
- Resonsibility
- Legal stuff relies on bodily continuity
- All about establishing its your body
- Anticipation is a first person problem
- Responsibility is a third person issue - how we judge identity of others
- Co-Consciousness
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