Submitted by BernardJOrtcutt t3_1118wno in philosophy
bradyvscoffeeguy t1_j8va3dj wrote
Reply to comment by Masimat in /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | February 13, 2023 by BernardJOrtcutt
Awhile ago I wrote an essay about this. I read all the thought experiments about the continuity of personal identity - the brain upload, the clone, the swampman, memory continuity, etc. - and came to the conclusion that the only answer is that there is no continuous "me", only future people who have minds very similar to me. Tomorrow I am a different person. Dramatic events like lobotomies only serve to make future persons more dissimilar to previous ones.
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