Single Idea 23547

[catalogued under 16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / b. Self as mental continuity]

Full Idea

Pace Parfit and others, it boggles the mind that survival could be independent of any relation of identity between the currently existing object and the objects that subsequently exist.

Gist of Idea

It seems absurd that there is no identity of any kind between two objects which involve survival

Source

Kit Fine (Vagueness: a global approach [2020], 3)

Book Reference

Fine,Kit: 'Vagueness: a global approach' [OUP 2020], p.65


A Reaction

Yes. If the self or mind just consists of a diachronic trail of memories such that the two ends of the trail have no connection at all, that isn't the kind of survival that any of us want. I want to live my life, not a life.