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11. Personal identity, Part II: The body theory and the personality theory
Death (PHIL 176) Two more views regarding the metaphysical key to personal identity are discussed: the body view and the personality view. According to the body view, an individual is identified in terms of his or her physical body. According to the personality view, an individual is identified by his or her unique set of beliefs, desires, memories, goals, and so on. 00:00 – Chapter 1. Review of Soul Theory 03:07 – Chapter 2. The Body Theory of Personal Identity 25:47 – Chapter 3. Equating the Brain with the Identity — Implications of the Body Theory 32:35 – Chapter 4. Physicalists: Personality as the Key to Personal Identity 46:39 – Chapter 5. Soul, Body, and Personality — Is There a Correct View? Assessment by Torture Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Spring 2007.
Ray Kurzweil on Personal Identity
Raymond Kurzweil is an American inventor and futurist. He is involved in fields as diverse as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He is the author of several books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. en.wikipedia.org In this clip, Ray discusses why we should consider ourselves to be “patterns of information,” and how using this conception we can imagine a future when non-biological systems can be both conscious and match (or exceed) present levels of human intelligence.
12. Personal identity, Part III: Objections to the personality theory
Death (PHIL 176) The lecture focuses on the problems directly related to the personality theory as key to personal identity. The theory states that a person retains his or her individuality so long as he or she has the same ongoing personality. The main objection raised to this claim is the problem of duplication. The lecture explores cases in which the same personality has been transferred or exported to multiple bodies. 00:00 – Chapter 1. A Mad Scientist’s Experiment to Determine Personal Identity 07:12 – Chapter 2. The Science Experiment Continued: Dilemmas in Mixed Personalities and Bodies 19:38 – Chapter 3. Duplication as an Objection to the Personality Theory 40:26 – Chapter 4. No Branching Clause – Acceptable under the Personality Theory? Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Spring 2007.