Peer Assessment Question 5: Animalism
From the three propositions: Sameness of body, same soul and psychological criterion of personal identity over time, the last one is believed to be the one that we most look for. The majority of contemporary philosophers are in agreement with John Locke, the first person (and human animal) to propose this theory: The connections a person has at a later time and a person at an earlier time. Those connections must be at a psychological and memory levels. One can assert that the psychological state of a person at t1 causes the psychological state of the same person at t2 to be the way it is. In such case we have strict identity where A is B only if there are sufficient strong connections between both states at different times. Therefore, in this view the person …show more content…
(I disagree with this statement). The animal persists without having anything to do with mental states.
An animal is an organism that can survive the loss and changes of some of its organs. Therefore, the organism can survive radical changes of the brain. Contrary to the Lokean theory, this animal was a fetus because it existed as such in the …show more content…
So, premise four is false, as multiple occupancy theorists believe that the person and the animal are four dimensional with the same parts but different past and future. The animal has a brain and processes information just like it is expected to. Therefore, it is extremely difficult to try to conclude that an animal does not have the capacity to think. When observing an animal we have all the tools to reach the conclusion that he may be thinking. After all, the following of some path behaviors indicate that those actions might not be random and
From the three propositions: Sameness of body, same soul and psychological criterion of personal identity over time, the last one is believed to be the one that we most look for. The majority of contemporary philosophers are in agreement with John Locke, the first person (and human animal) to propose this theory: The connections a person has at a later time and a person at an earlier time. Those connections must be at a psychological and memory levels. One can assert that the psychological state of a person at t1 causes the psychological state of the same person at t2 to be the way it is. In such case we have strict identity where A is B only if there are sufficient strong connections between both states at different times. Therefore, in this view the person …show more content…
(I disagree with this statement). The animal persists without having anything to do with mental states.
An animal is an organism that can survive the loss and changes of some of its organs. Therefore, the organism can survive radical changes of the brain. Contrary to the Lokean theory, this animal was a fetus because it existed as such in the …show more content…
So, premise four is false, as multiple occupancy theorists believe that the person and the animal are four dimensional with the same parts but different past and future. The animal has a brain and processes information just like it is expected to. Therefore, it is extremely difficult to try to conclude that an animal does not have the capacity to think. When observing an animal we have all the tools to reach the conclusion that he may be thinking. After all, the following of some path behaviors indicate that those actions might not be random and