On 14 April 2015 at 13:11, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote: > Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >> >> >> I can't see how, logically, personal identity could be more than >> mental contents. > > > So if I cut off a few of your external limbs, take your house, your wife, > your children, and, to cap it all, your dog, you would be OK with this > because you still have your memories of them?
It wouldn't be OK because I would suffer - but it would still be me suffering. >> Suppose it were an extra thing - a soul. It turns out >> that the soul is destroyed if I sin and eat chocolate. I eat >> chocolate, and my soul is destroyed; but I feel the same and I behave >> the same. What have I actually lost? > > > Who said anything about a dualist soul? I suggest that physical things as > well as emotions, values, memories, thoughts, dreams, and so on are > important in making you who you are. And, more importantly, these physical, > external things are part of your sense of self. The physical things are important insofar as they affect the mental. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
