The Nature of Personal Identity: What sort of changes can you undergo and remain the same person? Staying Alive
( http://www.philosophers.co.uk/games/identity.htm )
A game designed to test the consistency of your theory of personal identity from The Philosophers' Magazine Online A Different Person: How different from Kathleen Soliah is Sarah Jane Olsen? Kathleen Soliah aka Sarah Jane Olsen
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Soliah)
Wikipedia article on Kathleen Soliah. The Haunting of Patty Hearst - Kathleen Soliah
(http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/hearst/6.html)
More on the story of Kathleen Soliah and the SLA . Letters in Support of Sara Jane Olson
http://www.courttv.com/trials/soliah/docs/declarations_03.html
Friends of Sara Jane Olson write letters testifying to her change in character. Hobbes's Ship of Theseus: Which of the two ships (the continuously repaired ship
or the ship made out of the original planks) is identical to Theseus's ship? Relative Identity
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-relative/)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article The Ship of Theseus
(http://homepage.mac.com/baggaley/essays/ShipOfTheseusDraft.pdf)
Article by John Baggelay (Adobe File) Identity, Persistence, and the Ship of
Theseus
(http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/theseus.html)
Lecture notes from Marc Cohen (University of Washington) Identity through Time
(http://www.sfu.ca/philosophy/beyond_experience/chap11.htm)
Chapter from Metaphysical Theories and Philosophical Constraints by Norman
Swartz (Simon Fraser University) Swappable Minds
(http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~mnkylab/publications/learnconcepts/swappable.pdf)
Article by Marc Hauser (Harvard University) applying the ship of Theseus
problem to brains (Adobe File) Is Rachael a Person? Would a test for emphatic ability or emotional intelligence be a legitimate test for personhood? Blade Runner Brilliance
(http://archives.betterhumans.com/Columns/Column/tabid/79/Column/264/Default.aspx)
Article elucidating the big issues presented in Blade Runner. The Sci Phi Show - Blade Runner & What is it to be human?
(http://thesciphishow.blogspot.com/2005/11/episode-4-bladerunner-what-is-it-to-be.html)
A podcast offering an interesting view on “Voight-Kampf” as a test for personhood. Fast-forward about a quarter of the way into the podcast to get to the meat of the show. Personhood
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personhood)
Wikipedia article on personhood. Permanently Unconscious: What is the definition of death? Should we accept a higher brain definition of death? Ethics and Personhood: Some Issues in Contemporary Neurological Science and Technology
(http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/submitted/Perry/personhood.html)
Article by David L. Perry Care of PVS Patients
( http://www.op.org/domcentral/study/kor/pvscare.htm )
Catholic view of those in a permanent vegetative state An alternative conceptual structure for the resolution of end-of-life
( http://homepage.eircom.net/%7Eroche/PVSThesis/index.html )
Thesis on the problems associated with those in a permanent vegetative state Is Our Changing Definition of Death for the Better?
(http://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/19950518.htm)
Article by Peter Singer Brain Death and Brain Injury Resources
(http://www.changesurfer.com/BD/Brain.html)
Portal to various resources on the issues behind brain death and persistent vegetative states. Brain Death and Technological Change: Personal Identity, Neural Prostheses and Uploading
(http://www.changesurfer.com/Hlth/BD/Brain.html)
Article by James J. Hughes prepared for the Second International Symposium on Brain Death Definition of Death
(http://philosophy.wisc.edu/streiffer/HOM558S00Folder/000309Definition_of_Death.pdf)
Summary of arguments for different definitions of death by Robert Streiffer ( University of Wisconsin - Adobe File) Biology, Consciousness, and the Definition of Death
(http://www.puaf.umd.edu/IPPP/winter98/biology_consciousness.htm)
Report from the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy Safe Cloning: Would it be wrong to try to achieve immortality via mind transfers into clones? Raelism
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raelism)
Wikipedia article on Raelism Raelians Sucessfully Clone Naturalism
(http://www.arn.org/docs/williams/pw_raeliansclonenaturalism.htm)
Another article on Raelism and their beliefs and claims about human cloning. The Mechanism of Mind Transfer .
(http://www.mind.ilstu.edu/published/Phillips/PhillipsCh4.html)
This article offers insight on the concept of mind transfer in general, specifically human-computer mind transfer. Mind Transfer
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_transfer)
Wikipedia article on mind transfer. The Duplicates Paradox
(http://www.benbest.com/philo/doubles.html)
Ben Best on the problem of duplicates that arises from the issues of cloning and mind transfer. Siamese Twins: Would Siamese twins that share the same
body but have two heads be the same person? The Freedom of Love
(http://www.worldinvisible.com/newsltr/yr1997/jan/mary.htm)
Article on the Hensel twins by Mary Kliewer The Hensel Twins
(http://members.tripod.com/~midnightwill/twins.html)
Information on the Hensel twins A Social History of Conjoined Twins
(http://zygote.swarthmore.edu/cleave4b.html)
Excerpts from Body Doubles: Siamese Twins in Fact and Fiction by Laura
E. Beardsley Near-death Experiences: Are near-death experiences evidence for
the existence of the soul? International Association for Near Death Studies
(http://www.iands.org/)
Home page of an association devoted to the study of near-death experiences Near-death Experiences and the Afterlife
(http://www.near-death.com/)
Collection of links on near-death experiences maintained by Kevin Williams Near-Death Experience
(http://skepdic.com/nde.html)
Article from the Skeptic's Dictionary maintained by Robert Todd Carroll Near Death Experiences: In or Out of the Body?
(http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/si91nde.html)
Article by Susan Blackmore from the Skeptical Inquirer (1991) Electrodes
Trigger Out-of-Body Experience
(http://www.nature.com/nsu/020916/020916-8.html)
Article by Helen Pearson from Nature (2002) describing recent findings
of neurophysiologists Near Death Experience in Survivors of Cardiac Arrest
http://www.zarqon.co.uk/Lancet.pdf
Dutch study of heart attack patients who had a near death experience. Near Death Research Foundation
http://www.nderf.org/
Links to numerous published papers on the near death experience. Scientific Survival of Existence After Death
http://www.near-death.com/evidence.html
Links to evidence pointing to survival after death. Souls in Heaven: What happens to souls in heaven? Do children
grow up? Are cripples made whole? Will the insane become sane? Can the soul
theory answer
these questions? Do Souls Go to Heaven?
(http://www.mindspring.com/~anthonybuzzard/souls.htm)
Article by Anthony Buzzard (Atlanta Bible College) How Does Your Soul Fit Into Your Brain?
(http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/brain.html)
Article by Adrian Barnett on the relationship between the brain and the soul Problems with Heaven
(http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/michael_martin/heaven.html)
Article by Michael Martin (Boston University) What Happens at the Time of our
Death?
(http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_deat.htm)
Summary article from religioustolerance.org What is Heaven Like?
(http://hometown.aol.com/prophecy04/Articles/Heaven/heaven.html)
Article by Roy A. Reinhold (Prophecy Truths) Multiple Personalities: Would
destroying the memories of a personality in a person suffering from multiple
personality disorder be an act of murder?
Why or why not? Existential Issues in Multiple Personality
(http://www.astraeasweb.net/plural/existential.html)
Collection of links relating to multiple personality disorder Moral Status
and the Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder
(http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/tbayne/did.pdf)
Article by Timothy Bayne on the issue of whether the different personalities
of those suffering from multiple personality disorder are different persons
(Adobe File) Multiple Personality Resources
(http://www.dissociation.com/index/Resources/)
Links to sites dealing with multiple personality disorder Multiple Personality as a Failure of Autobiographical Memory
(http://www.uwmanitowoc.uwc.edu/staff/awhite/markb002.htm)
Article by Mark Brown Multiple Personality and Personal Identity Revisited
(http://www.astraeasweb.net/plural/lizza.html)
Article by John Lizza Were you ever a fetus? If your identity extends only as far as your memories, then were you ever a fetus? Does a Fetus Already Have a Future Like Ours?
(http://www.jstor.org/view/0022362x/di973288/97p0305w/0?frame=noframe&userID=c068b5e3)
Peter McInerney's take the fetal continuity question Soul Catcher: Suppose scientists succeed in making a computer
chip that can record all of the experiences of one's life. Should such a
chip be made generally
available? The End of Death: Soul Catcher Chip Due
(http://www.rense.com/political/weapons/soul.htm)
Article by Robert Uhlig from the Electronic Telegraph on British Telecom's
plans to create a chip to record experiences Ghosts, Computers, and Chinese Whispers
(http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/toby/writing/PCW/upload.htm)
Article by Toby Howard (University of Manchester) on the implications of
the soul catcher chip The Melding of Mind with Machine May Be the Next Stage of Evolution
(http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/08/cyber/compcol/11compcol-fixmer.html)
Article by Rob Fixmer from the New York Times Peter Cochrane will Microprocess your Soul
(http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.11/wired25.html?pg=17)
Article by Wendy Grossman from Wired Is Darth Vader Anakin Skywalker? When Anakin Skywalker joined the dark side and became Darth Vader, did he literally become a different person? Is Anakin Skywalker an Evil Person?
(http://anakinskywalker1.homestead.com/isanakinskywalkeranevilperson.html)
An essay on whether Anakin Skywalker himself is “evil” that touches on personal identity Darth Vader
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darth_Vader)
Wikipedia article on Darth Vader Anakin Skywalker
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anakin_Skywalker)
Wikipedia article on Anakin Skywalker Past-Life Hypnotic Regression: Does past-life hypnotic regression provide
good evidence for reincarnation? Past Life Regression
(http://skepdic.com/pastlife.html)
Article from the Skeptic's Dictionary maintained by Robert Todd Carroll Hypnotic Regression
(http://www.mikepettigrew.com/afterlife/html/hypnotic_regression.html)
Article from the Institute for Afterlife Research Transporter travel: Would
you use a Parfit-style transporter to travel from one place to another? Teletransporters: A Sensible Way of Travelling or a Death Machine?
(http://www.geocities.com/griseborough/01.htm)
Article by Glen Mason-Riseborough (University of Auckland) The Duplicates Paradox
(http://www.benbest.com/philo/doubles.html)
Article by Ben Best on the reduplication problem A Metaphysical Manifesto for
Translated Travelers
(http://www.bkmarcus.com/docs/manifesto.html)
Article by Brian Knatz on the implications of teletransportation Maintaining Identity
(http://www.mind.ilstu.edu/misc/WinPhilp/PhillipsCh5.doc?class=phi315a¤t=23)
PDF download. Chapter from Win Phillip's masters thesis maintained by the Mind Project Can
You Go to Heaven? Can a person in heaven who does not have your physical
body be numerically identical to you? Transhumanist Ethics
(http://www.nickbostrom.com/ethics/transhumanist.pdf)
Article by Nick Bostrum (Yale University) on the possibility of physical immortality
(Adobe File) Can You Go to Heaven?
(http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=schick_19_4)
Article by Theodore Schick (Muhlenberg College) Body Transplants: Does your identity reside in your brain? Would you survive a full body transplant? Full Body Transplant
(http://www.gettingit.com/article/134)
Article on Dr. White and his transplantations Cher To Receive Full Body Transplant
(http://www.thefakenews.com/cher016.html)
News article on Cher 's upcoming body transplant If a man appeared tomorrow possessing every conceivable attribute of Socrates, is there any chance that he is the same person as Plato's Tutor?
(http://interconnected.org/matt/archive/james/Personal_Identity.html)
Essay on the brain as the locus for personal identity Alien Hand Syndrome: Who Is Behind the Hand? Could the agent behind an alien hand be a person? 'Alien Hand' Syndrome Turns Limbs Monstrous
(http://www.rense.com/politics6/hand.htm)
Article on Alien Hand Syndrome Alien Hand Syndrome
(http://www.hippy.freeserve.co.uk/aliensyn.htm)
The Happy Hippy speculates about who is behind the hand. Splitting the Human Brain
(http://www.indiana.edu/%7Epietsch/split-brain.html)
Paul Pietsch's article on the split human brain. The Fragile Orchestra
(http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0398/neuro3.html)
Article about Alien Hand Syndrome and other strange disorders Being Clive Waring: Is Clive Waring one person, even though he has no continuous chain of memory? Personal Identity
(http://www.ucl.ac.uk/philosophy/adobedocs/personalidentity3R.pdf)
A lecture on personal identity and memory Self and Identity as Memory
(http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~kihlstrm/SelfIdentityMemory.htm)
A very in-depth article on the self as memory, including empirical studies and discussions of amnesia Anterograde Amnesia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterograde_amnesia
Wikipedia article on the inability to form new memories after an injury. Retrograde Amnesia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrograde_amnesia
Wikipedia article on the inability to recall memories after an injury. Branch Lines: Does your identity
depend on the existence of other people? The Duplicates Paradox
(http://www.benbest.com/philo/doubles.html)
Article by Ben Best on the reduplication problem Maintaining Identity
(http://www.mind.ilstu.edu/misc/WinPhilp/PhillipsCh5.doc?class=phi315a¤t=23)
Chapter from Win Phillip's masters thesis maintained by the Mind Project Robert
and Frank: Should a person be punished for what a former, very different
stage of himself did? Does Punishment for 'Culpable Indifference' Simply Punish for 'Bad Character'?
(http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=323400)
Article by Keith W. Simons (Boston University School of Law) Justification of
Punishment
(http://www.garlikov.com/Punishment.html)
Article by Richard Garlikov Morality and Personal Identity
(http://www.lucs.lu.se/spinning/categories/moral/Tannsjo/Tannsjo.pdf)
Article by Torbjorn Tannsjo (Gothenberg University) | 