Episode 254: Nobody's Parfit
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Tamler's earlier self committed to doing an episode on Parfit, and David holds his current self to that promise, which shows how unconvinced David was by Parfit's skepticism about personal identity. Or something like that. We argue about the value of Parfit's sci-fi thought experiments and the implications of believing there's no clear sense of "me." Plus, we talk about a recent article on aphantasia – the inability to conjure images in your mind – and the question that pops into everyone's head when they hear about this condition.
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Links:
- Aphantasia - Wikipedia
- Can't See Pictures in Your Mind? You're Not Alone. - The New York Times
- The Vividness Of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (the "aphantasia Test")
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- How To Be Good | The New Yorker (Profile on Derek Parfit by Larissa MacFarquar)
- Parfit, D. (1971) Personal Identity, The Philosophical Review, 80, 3-27.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
| 0:05.9 | having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics. |
| 0:09.4 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say, |
| 0:13.6 | and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:17.3 | You can't stop what's coming. |
| 0:21.4 | They know I'll wait no new. |
| 0:22.9 | That's vanity. |
| 0:31.9 | The lady on his phone, |
| 0:36.1 | a new attention to that man behind the curtain. |
| 0:44.7 | Who are you? |
| 0:46.7 | Who are you? |
| 0:48.3 | I'm very bad men. |
| 0:49.7 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:51.1 | Good man. |
| 0:55.6 | They think he's lost and with no more brains than you have. |
| 0:59.8 | They know our attention. |
| 1:00.8 | Can I stand? |
| 1:05.9 | Anybody can have a brain? |
| 1:09.9 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:12.3 | I'm a very good man. |
| 1:14.1 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:16.5 | Welcome to very bad wizards. |
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