8.4 Persons, Humans and Brains

Part 8.3. Criticisms of Locke's view of personal identity; if personal identity is dependent on memory then how does forgetting personal history and the concept of false memory change Locke's view of personal identity. 

Part 8.2. Looks at John Locke's view of personal identity; how consciousness and 'personal history' distinguish personal identity and the idea of memory as crucial for personal identity. 

Part 8.1. Introduces the concept of personal identity, what is it to be a person, whether someone is the same person over time and Leibniz's law of sameness. 

In part one of a two part series, Michael shares the difference between thoughts and thinking and why one of them inevitably works better and is of more use than the other. 

<p>If you take away how others see you, how do you see yourself? Psychologist, author and Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Brian Lowery argues that this question is so difficult to wrap our heads around because what we think of as our individual identity is actually ... Show More

In part two of a two part series, Michael talks about wisdom - what it is and how we can make use of it to create a completely different experience of life and pretty much everything in it. 

This episode is the third in a seven part series devoted to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Ryan and Todd discuss the second major section, Self-Consciousness, with a special focus on the master/slave dialectic. They also explore the transition from Consciousness and then the tr ... Show More

Part one of Fahrenheit 451 

In this episode, Ryan and Todd trace the concept of alienation from its theorization by Hegel, through its development in Marx, to its elaboration in Sartre and Lacan. They focus on Hegel's positive twist to this typically negative concept, and then discuss how subsequent thinker ... Show More

In part two of this foundational neurology series, Casey Kozak discusses key differences and clinical implications of subdural hematomas. 

<p>On this episode, I explore the beliefs and values that make up the anxious identity. How do you break your current identity and mold a new one? I go into my old patterns of behaviour and the link between those and the suffering I later endured. </p> <p> </p> <p>—The Anxiety Re ... Show More

<p>Ryan and Todd explore Hegel’s concept of the beautiful soul as he lays it out in the Phenomenology of Spirit. They discuss the contemporary political situation in terms of this figure and theorize about its predominance in today’s landscape. The beautiful soul also becomes a w ... Show More