Brainspotting, Buddhism and Mind Copying Derek Parfit ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/parfit20130821 Part 1 youtube/watch?v=34N3pbysIzQ Part 2 youtube/watch?v=RywGSauMqbA In these short two videos Derek Parfit ( British philosopher who specializes in problems of personal identity, rationality, ethics, and the relations among them) talks about brain/mind copying, identity, and consciousness. In philosophy, identity, from Latin: identitas (“sameness”), is the relation each thing bears just to itself. The notion of identity gives rise to many philosophical problems, including the identity of indiscernibles (if x and y share all their properties, are they one and the same thing?), and questions about change and personal identity over time (what has to be the case for a person x at one time and a person y at a later time to be one and the same person?). It is important to distinguish the philosophical concept of identity from the more well-known notion of identity in use in psychology and the social sciences. The philosophical concept concerns a relation, specifically, a relation that x and y stand in just in case they are one and the same thing, or identical to each other (i.e. just in case x = y). The sociological notion of identity, by contrast, has to do with a person’s self-conception, social presentation, and more generally, the aspects of a person that make them unique, or qualitatively different from others (e.g. cultural identity, gender identity, national Identity, online identity and processes of identity formation.)
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