11 ideas
21315 | A tree remains the same in the popular sense, but not in the strict philosophical sense [Butler] |
21317 | Despite consciousness fluctuating, we are aware that it belongs to one person [Butler] |
3539 | Personal identity is just causally related mental states [Parfit, by Maslin] |
21313 | If consciousness of events makes our identity, then if we have forgotten them we didn't exist then [Butler] |
1393 | One of my future selves will not necessarily be me [Parfit] |
21314 | Consciousness presupposes personal identity, so it cannot constitute it [Butler] |
1392 | If we split like amoeba, we would be two people, neither of them being us [Parfit] |
21318 | If the self changes, we have no responsibilities, and no interest in past or future [Butler] |
1391 | Concern for our own lives isn't the source of belief in identity, it is the result of it [Parfit] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |