Know Your Double

Know Your Double comic strip by John Martz

Philosophy of Mind Video Playlists

I have compiled the following YouTube playlists on philosophy of mind topics:

Mind-Body Problem
Alien Minds
Personal Identity
Robots, AI, and Artificial Life
Illusions
Posthumanity
Singularity
Plato's Cave and the Simulation Hypothesis

Interactive Animated Split Brain Experiment Thingy

This here as an Interactive Animated Split Brain Experiment Thingy: The Split Brain Experiments

Out-of-body experience: Master of illusion : Nature News & Comment

Out-of-body experience: Master of illusion : Nature News & Comment: "Henrik Ehrsson uses mannequins, rubber arms and virtual reality to create body illusions, all in the name of neuroscience."

 

How many lives? Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

You Can't See It, But You'll Be A Different Person In 10 Years : Shots - Health News : NPR

You Can't See It, But You'll Be A Different Person In 10 Years : Shots - Health News : NPR

No matter how old people are, they seem to believe that who they are today is essentially who they'll be tomorrow. That's according to fresh research that suggests that people generally fail to appreciate how much their personality and values will change in the years ahead — even though they recognize that they have changed in the past.

The Un-Gone, A short film about teletransportation

Derek Parfit - Brainspotting

An excerpt from an interview for a channel 4 documentary.

The Philosophy Of Looper: Exploring Identity Through Time | We Got This Covered

The Philosophy Of Looper: Exploring Identity Through Time | We Got This Covered

Humans are less human than we thought. | MetaFilter

Humans are less human than we thought. | MetaFilter:

Each of the Earth's 7 billion-plus human bodies contains about ten times more microorganism cells than human cells.

No-self knee slapper

From Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal:

Boston Review — Alex Byrne: Cheating Death

Boston Review — Alex Byrne: Cheating Death:

Star Trek–style teleportation may one day become a reality. You step into the transporter, which instantly scans your body and brain, vaporizing them in the process. The information is transmitted to Mars, where it is used by the receiving station to reconstitute your body and brain exactly as they were on Earth. You then step out of the receiving station, slightly dizzy, but pleased to arrive on Mars in a few minutes, as opposed to the year it takes by old-fashioned spacecraft.
But wait. Do you really step out of the receiving station on Mars? Someone just like you steps out, someone who apparently remembers stepping into the transporter on Earth a few minutes before. But perhaps this person is merely your replica—a kind of clone or copy. That would not make this person you: in Las Vegas there is a replica of the Eiffel Tower, but the Eiffel Tower is in Paris, not in Las Vegas. If the Eiffel Tower were vaporized and a replica instantly erected in Las Vegas, the Eiffel Tower would not have been transported to Las Vegas. It would have ceased to exist. And if teleportation were like that, stepping into the transporter would essentially be a covert way of committing suicide. Troubled by these thoughts, you now realize that “you” have been commuting back and forth to Mars for years . . .

What goes where after death

From SMBC:

Head transplants and Szymborska’s Experiment � Mind Hacks

Head transplants and Szymborska’s Experiment � Mind Hacks

Derek Parfit in the New Yorker

Derek Parfit. Photo by Steven Pyke.

Superstar of personal identity theorist, Derek Parfit, is featured in this New Yorker article: Can All Morality Be Distilled Into a Formula?.

Philosophy Bro: Jean-Paul Sartre's "Being and Nothingness": A Summary

Philosophy Bro: Jean-Paul Sartre's "Being and Nothingness": A Summary