Daniel Dennett - What is the Nature of Personal Identity?
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2016
- What makes one a person or a self? If he or she sees, hears, thinks and feels, is that a person or a self? How can separate perceptions bind together into a coherent mental unity of a single person or self?
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The only way to get me in a church would be if Dan sat in front of me and we just talked through the whole mass.
Im just so curious as to why they chose to film this in a church.
This is more terrifying than illuminating. It’s strange to me they’re not going insane by contemplating these things.
He never answered the question of personal identity. You can't answer with metaphors and philosophical thought experiments. Who is aware of the memories? Who is aware of the multiple personalities? We are talking about 'that one'. You can't equate the qualities of personal identity with the identity. I am not my arm. Mr. Interviewer, why do u even bother to ask the question?
Why is the interviewer laughing all time. I don't get what's so funny
The self is a construct of the brain based on time, place, and circumstance. My identity is the situation I exist in now. My past informs my self , but like the many other things informing my self, it is ever interpreted in the present. Everything is filtered. My self creates the concept of my self at every thought, and at the moment I fall asleep, my self disappears. When I wake up, my self is in a new time and circumstance, maybe a new place, and the train of thoughts goes on creating a new self, directing the body. People meet me and see my body and assume I’m the same self and I may surprise them showing that my self has changed. My guiding function based on my interpretation of my past operates the body in a similar fashion, but my new time, place, and circumstance has altered the construct of my self. The fact that I feel like I’m still the same is just from the need for confidence in a sense of continuity of a central guiding function. That is the self. When that confidence diminishes, that is the start of schizophrenia.
The reason he laughs is that truth is sometimes amusing, even funny. The “interviewer” is Robert L Kuhn, an exceptionally intelligent and knowledgeable person.
I figure if I get bumped on the head and I’m suddenly a guy called Gary, and a trump supporter, the real me is deceased and I don’t care if Gary just dies.
You cannot be closer to truth. You either are true, or are not true. Truth does not have shades. The world does.
Who is Dennett anyway? Why should the Dennett in his 80's be entitled to book royalty checks of the Dennett in his 60's? I would imagine this question of the self would become important pretty quickly.
Perhaps the most insightful commentator on the ineffable problem.
...just a "leftover from metaphysical absolutism"... a point so exactly and precisely stated.
The self is not unified. The processes that loop around selfhood are complex and can shatter. This is an important insight.
People have suffered from brain trauma resulting in noticeable change in personality even though they retained all the memories they previously had. So memory can't be the only thing that shapes personality since both can change/develop independently of one another.
NOTES :
After traumas of various kinds, be it environmental or medical, one can feel like their old self had died.
Yaaay!!
Equating a subjective sense of self with personality is an error and a quite obvious one too. Personality is a form of identity not a sense of self. Of course you have people with multiple personalities, but each of them has a single sense of self. The error comes from trying to answer the question from an objective perspective when in fact it should always be posed subjectively.
But my personal experience has limitations and is incomplete considering the total reality of the universe. There clearly are things "i know" and "i do not know". Self is just a word i like to adress this division, which is to be more precise my inability to be another person at this moment in time and have access to their experiences over mine.
This is the only episode which actually makes sense, as appose to scattered philosophizing on the theme of consciousness.