personhood
...ect to a complete account of soul/personhood. We began with the soul (nonphysical), the body, the brain and function of the mind/personhood. Carruthers claims that the best account of personhood, which explains more and has the least problems, is the notion of psychological connection. The question that drives this discussion is, Do we survive as the same person over time, as we say, throughout our life time? In what sense are we the same person? Let’s try to get a generally good grasp of this notion. Those of you who have been keeping up with the reading have seen Carruthers?explanation for these terms. According to Carruthers we are the same person in that: (A) x will survive as y to the extent that they are psychological connection. (p.223) Statement (A) can be restated as: (B) I will survive as me overtime to the extent that I am psychological connection to my past. Statement (A ) my seem a bit strange in using x and y, however, What if you were looking at a possible person at two different times or locations? Take the case in which you see person x in the bookstore and some person, who looks like the person in the bookstore, later in a cafe (call them) y, you would say : (C) Person x will be the same person y to the extent that they are psychological connection. What then is Psychological connection? Psychological connection: (a) a pers...