What will commercial genome-reading – from cheap 23andMe to costly but complete Knome – do to middle-class conceptions of personal identity?
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The Dust Hypothesis
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Very fun argument worth considering. It's for the conclusion that there is a mental duplicate of you that IS spread out (and widely scattered) over all of space and time.
Something seems to have gone wrong - check the post out to see where Schwitzgebel thinks it goes wrong.
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A Problem of The Many
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Alexander Pruss argues what he thinks is the most plausible version of universalism raises a problem of the many. He goes on to suggest that this may have implications for psychological theories of personal identity.
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