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Who is the advocate of the Memory Theory? And what does the Memory Theory say about personal identity?
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1. John Locke
2. He believed that personal identity is based on self-consciousness. (memories about one's former experiences) |
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What is wrong with you forgetting a memory from when you were 2 years old?
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If we forget our memories, we cannot make the connection with our present-selves and the forgotten past stages of our former self.
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Many times you THINK that you did something but in reality it never happened...why does the memory theory conflict with this?
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These inaccurate memories are not a part of ourselves at all. (what happened to the REAL memory??)
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What issue do we run into when trying to distinguish genuine memories?
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We have to presuppose the existence of a persisting, self-identical person. The person having the memory must be the same as the person who had the experience.
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The problem with explaining memory & the "problem of circularity"
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We cannot use the concept of memory to explain personal identity, IF the only way to explain memory is to accept the concept of a personal identity. (Trying to use ONE theory...to explain another! While neither of them are completely accepted.)
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