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The Nature of Personal Identity: What sort of changes can you undergo and remain the same person? A Different Person: How different from Kathleen Soliah is Sarah Jane Olsen? Kathleen Soliah aka Sarah Jane Olsen The Haunting of Patty Hearst - Kathleen Soliah Letters in Support of Sara Jane Olson (http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-m/midgley01.pdf) Article by philosopher Mary Midgely defending the view that dolphins could be persons.Dolphins Save Surfer (http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=678D018FE44474FF) Youtube video from NBC news about a surfer saved from a shark by dolphins. 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 Identity, Persistence, and the Ship of
Theseus Identity through Time Is Rachael a Person? Would a test for emphatic ability or emotional intelligence be a legitimate test for personhood? The Sci Phi Show - Blade Runner & What is it to be human? 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 An alternative conceptual structure for the resolution of end-of-life Is Our Changing Definition of Death for the Better? Brain Death and Brain Injury Resources Brain Death and Technological Change: Personal Identity, Neural Prostheses and Uploading Safe Cloning: Would it be wrong to try to achieve immortality via mind transfers into clones? Raelism Raelians Sucessfully Clone Naturalism Mind Transfer The Duplicates Paradox Siamese Twins: Would Siamese twins that share the same body but have two heads be the same person? The Freedom of Love The Hensel Twins Near-death Experiences: Are near-death experiences evidence for the existence of the soul? International Association for Near Death Studies Near-death Experiences and the Afterlife Near-Death Experience Electrodes
Trigger Out-of-Body Experience Near Death Research Foundation 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? Problems with Heaven What Happens at the Time of our
Death? (http://www.lakesidepress.com/pulmonary/Sleep/sleep-murder.htm) Discussion by Dr. Lawrence Martin of "homicidal somnambulism."How Sleepwalking Can Lead to Killing (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4362081.stm) Laura Smith-Spark of BBC News reports on the sleepwalking murder case of Jules Lowe.Sleepwalker is Cleared of Murder (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article431475.ece) Report by Russell Jenkins in the Times Online on the Jules Lowe case.Automatism: The Sleepwalker's Defense (http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/psychology/automatism/biblio.html) Bibliography of articles dealing with the sleepwalking defense.Memory Damping: Should drugs that erase memories be made generally available?Pill to erase bad memories: Ethical furor over drugs that threaten human identity (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1145777/Pill-erase-bad-memories-Ethical-furore-drugs-threaten-human-identity.html) David Derrbyshire discusses the ethical issues raised by memory damping.Drugs for Erasing Memories (http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/neuro/memory_drugs_sd.html) Report by Scott LaFee in the San Diego Union Tribune on research into memory damping drugs.Common pressure drug may banish fears, post-traumatic stress (http://www.topnews.in/healthcare/content/-21288common-blood-pressure-drug-may-banish-fears-post-traumatic-stress) Report by Mohit Joshi on research into propranolol.Personal Identity and Memory erasure (http://utcp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/events/pdf/002_Nakazawa_Eisuke_3rd_BESETO.pdf) Article by Nakazawa Eisuke on the threat of memory erasure to personal identity.Merging of the Minds: Is losing one's self by merging one's mind with others a desirable thing?Selfhood and Identity (http://www.humiliationstudies.org/documents/HoSelfhoodandIdentityinConfucianismTaoismBuddhismandHinduism.pdf) A study by David Ho of Eastern and Western conceptions of personal identity.Personal Survival and the Closest Continuer Theory (http://www.eou.edu/~jjohnson/personalsurvival.htm) Article by Jeff Johnson on the prospects for survival after death.The compatibility of religiouis and transhumanist versions of metaphysics (http://www.metanexus.net/Magazine/tabid/68/id/9930/Default.aspx) Comparative analysis by Robert Hughes regarding different views of the self. 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 Multiple Personality Resources Multiple Personality as a Failure of Autobiographical Memory Multiple Personality and Personal Identity Revisited Were you ever a fetus? If your identity extends only as far as your memories, then were you ever a fetus? 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 Ghosts, Computers, and Chinese Whispers The Melding of Mind with Machine May Be the Next Stage of Evolution Peter Cochrane will Microprocess your Soul 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? Darth Vader Anakin Skywalker Past-Life Hypnotic Regression: Does past-life hypnotic regression provide good evidence for reincarnation? Past Life Regression Hypnotic Regression Transporter travel: Would you use a Parfit-style transporter to travel from one place to another? The Duplicates Paradox Maintaining Identity Can You Go to Heaven? Can a person in heaven who does not have your physical body be numerically identical to you? Transhumanist Ethics Can You Go to Heaven? Body Transplants: Does your identity reside in your brain? Would you survive a full body transplant? Full 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? Alien Hand Syndrome: Who Is Behind the Hand? Could the agent behind an alien hand be a person? 'Alien Hand' Syndrome Turns Limbs Monstrous Splitting the Human Brain The Fragile Orchestra Being Clive Waring: Is Clive Waring one person, even though he has no continuous chain of memory? Self and Identity as Memory Anterograde Amnesia Retrograde Amnesia Branch Lines: Does your identity depend on the existence of other people? The Duplicates Paradox Maintaining Identity 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'? Justification of
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