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Single Idea 16236
[filed under theme 16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 7. Self and Body / a. Self needs body
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Full Idea
Instead of attributing person-like persistence conditions to bodies, we could attribute body-like persistence conditions to persons, …so human persons are identical with human organisms.
Gist of Idea
Maybe our persistence conditions concern bodies, rather than persons
Source
report of Eric T. Olson (The Human Animal [1997]) by Katherine Hawley - How Things Persist 5.10
Book Ref
Hawley,Katherine: 'How Things Persist' [OUP 2004], p.173
A Reaction
In the case of pre-birth and advanced senility, Olson thinks we could have the body without the person, so person is a 'phase sortal' of bodies. A good theory, which seems to answer a lot of questions. 'Person' may be an abstraction.
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[a body is necessary for a sef]:
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The mind only knows itself by means of ideas of the modification of the body
[Spinoza]
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5583
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We need an account of the self based on rational principles, to avoid materialism
[Kant]
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20757
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The powerful self behind your thoughts and feelings is your body
[Nietzsche]
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15583
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Certainty that I will die is more basic to my existence than the Cogito
[Heidegger]
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23747
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What is sacred is not a person, but the whole physical human being
[Weil]
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5324
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Bodily identity and memory work together to establish personal identity
[Ayer]
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5668
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People own conscious states because they are causally related to the identifying body
[Ayer]
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5173
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Two experiences belong to one self if their contents belong with one body
[Ayer]
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5176
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Empiricists can define personal identity as bodily identity, which consists of sense-contents
[Ayer]
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9263
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A person is an entity to which we can ascribe predicates of consciousness and corporeality
[Strawson,P]
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5673
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If we have a pain, we are strongly aware of the bodily self
[Cassam]
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16236
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Maybe our persistence conditions concern bodies, rather than persons
[Olson, by Hawley]
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6669
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For 'animalism', I exist before I became a person, and can continue after it, so I am not a person
[Olson, by Lowe]
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4936
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The self is founded on bodily awareness centred in the brain stem
[Edelman/Tononi]
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6144
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You hold a child in your arms, so it is not mental substance, or mental state, or software
[Merricks]
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