Quiz 5: The Self + Materialistic

Question 1

Parfit’s simple-transporter case?

Answer 1

destroyed before replication

Question 2

Parfit’s branch-line case?

Answer 2

my life and replicas life overlap

Question 3

What ends up happening in Parfit’s branch-line case?

Answer 3

my body is destroyed, which is not what I planned

Question 4

How does Parfit define relation R?

Answer 4

Psychological connectedness/continuity. Memories, desires, everything that connects your past and future to your current self.

Question 5

According to Parfit, what makes a question an empty question?

Answer 5

We are free to choose the answer based on what matters.

Question 6

what does semantic mean?

Answer 6

language and meaning

Question 7

what does epistemic mean?

Answer 7

knowledge and cognition

Question 8

what does ontic mean?

Answer 8

nature of reality

Question 9

what is reductionism?

Answer 9

We consist of our body, brain, experience physical and mental events (no separate entity)

Question 10

what is non-reductionism?

Answer 10

separate existing entity from our body and brain

Question 11

What does Parfit hope to show with his physical, psychological, and combined spectrum cases?

Answer 11

a reductionist point of view. psychological continuity/connectedness matters more than unchanged body

Question 12

What was Parfit’s psychological spectrum case?

Answer 12

having 99% of your brain, 50%, and 1%