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Single Idea 1373
[filed under theme 16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / a. Memory is Self
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Full Idea
As far as any intelligent being can repeat the idea of any past action with the same consciousness it had of it at first, and with the same consciousness it has of any present action; so far it is the same personal self.
Gist of Idea
Identity over time involves remembering actions just as they happened
Source
John Locke (Essay Conc Human Understanding (2nd Ed) [1694], 2.27.10)
Book Ref
Locke,John: 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding', ed/tr. Nidditch,P.H. [OUP 1979], p.336
A Reaction
Reid's criticism of 'same' (Idea 1368).
Related Idea
Idea 1368
Locke mistakes similarity of a memory to its original event for identity [Reid on Locke]
The
21 ideas
with the same theme
[relationship between the sense of Self and memories]:
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22984
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Without memory I could not even speak of myself
[Augustine]
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17216
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The poet who forgot his own tragedies was no longer the same man
[Spinoza]
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5175
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Personal identity is my perceptions, but not my memory, as I forget too much
[Ayer on Locke]
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1363
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Locke's theory confusingly tries to unite consciousness and memory
[Reid on Locke]
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1368
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Locke mistakes similarity of a memory to its original event for identity
[Reid on Locke]
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1373
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Identity over time involves remembering actions just as they happened
[Locke]
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1380
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Should we punish people who commit crimes in their sleep?
[Locke]
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5027
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If a person's memories became totally those of the King of China, he would be the King of China
[Leibniz]
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12942
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Memory doesn't make identity; a man who relearned everything would still be the same man
[Leibniz]
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21313
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If consciousness of events makes our identity, then if we have forgotten them we didn't exist then
[Butler]
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1333
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Memory only reveals personal identity, by showing cause and effect
[Hume]
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1332
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We use memory to infer personal actions we have since forgotten
[Hume]
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21305
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Memory not only reveals identity, but creates it, by producing resemblances
[Hume]
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21307
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Who thinks that because you have forgotten an incident you are no longer that person?
[Hume]
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21323
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The identity of a thief is only known by similarity, but memory gives certainty in our own case
[Reid]
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7120
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It is theoretically possible that the Ego consists entirely of false memories
[Sartre]
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5666
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Not all exerience can be remembered, as this would produce an infinite regress
[Ayer]
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5665
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Memory is the best proposal as what unites bundles of experiences
[Ayer]
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1389
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If memory is the sole criterion of identity, we ought to use it for other people too
[Shoemaker]
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1390
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Bodily identity is one criterion and memory another, for personal identity
[Shoemaker, by PG]
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19744
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If a person relies on their notes, those notes are parted of the extended system which is the person
[Clark/Chalmers]
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