Unit 1: Core theme — Being human
Topic 1.1: Identity Questions
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True or false? You are not asked to 'solve' the teleporter puzzle, but to USE it to test the views.
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Hume, looking inward for a self, reported that he found:
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Why does making TWO teleporter copies threaten 'survival as a pattern'?
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Identity 'over time' is the question of how you stay the same while:
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The Buddhist idea of anattā claims that:
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True or false? On de Beauvoir's view, being a woman is a role society shapes, not just a biological fact.
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The 'persistence question' asks:
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True or false? On the body-swap case, the body view must say you did NOT travel to the new body.
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De Beauvoir's line 'one is not born, but becomes, a woman' argues that:
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On the 'body view', you are:
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The body-swap thought experiment is used to:
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The ship of Theseus puzzle most directly pressures:
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True or false? Parfit separates the question 'is it still me?' from the question 'what should I care about?'.
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A weakness of the body view is that it must say:
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A weakness of the mind/self view is that:
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The freedom worry about cultural identity is:
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Across the Identity topic, the main competing views are:
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On Locke's view, what makes you the same person over time?
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'Two brand-new phones off the same production line are identical.' This is:
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True or false? Locke holds that you could be the same person even in a completely different body.
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