Who Is Danielle Dennett's Where Am I?

Danielle Dennett’s short tale Where Am I? focuses on the metaphysical and physical dilemma where the idea of the self truly supervenes with the aid of a sci-fi short tale. Insofar, there is a constant displacement in where the idea of the self is, when separated which is as four locations in the tale.insofar viewing these possible locations in his story, and explaining why he can possibly be each these locations. I will thereafter interpret these ideas further with a philosophical view in how they cope, or violate them, than refute why Dennett is none of these locations.
Danielle Dennett’s short tale, Where Am I focuses on the metaphysical issue where the idea of the self truly supervenes. For Dennett, undergoes the necessary procedure of …show more content…
For all intrinsic characteristics that make Dennett who he is, is located in the brain, and the fact his brain exists without a body makes Dennett being his brain a plausible answer. A bodily continuist would forcibly agree, Dennett is his brain, especially for the period when he loses his first body. His brain is the physical remanent of his external self, yet if his extrinsic being was destroyed and was merely left with a working brain, they would have to come to agreements that his brain is Dennett. As for the view of being his body, the given example Dennett uses in his story where person A and B switch bodies is similar to (if not is) Bernard William’s case example of two people switching brains. Undoubtably we would never recognize we switched bodies unless told otherwise. Furthermore, Dennett could be placed into the body of a different race or gender, and continue to retain the belief he is the same person, with the same memories he had before. Yet what is to be made of his perspective, especially if his stream of consciousness persist after all these bodily changes. There are indeed views that can argue this. To whatever situation Dennett is placed in, via he retains his psychological continuity, he can be placed into whatever organic body imaginable, and if he can think or express the indexical, “Here I am, Daniell Dennett thinking this thought” Dennett in his own belief is there. Reason being for using this example is, he could be placed in the body of a dog, and if he can understand and think he is Daniel Dennett, along side with having the original memories and belief of himself, then the idea of Dennett supervening inside the body of a dog is possible. The other view that can be used, is Hume’s bundle theory. Where our perspective is comparative to illusions, for our body is ever