We have a separate body, conjoined with a soul that has lived before and will go on to live again. It goes on to the world of Forms- it is trapped in a physical body Who believed that?
Plato
Aristotle
For Aristotle, the self is what animates you
Descartes Aristotle( Descartes, Aristotle )' argument from doubt i) I can doubt believe( doubt, believe ) that my body exists ii) But I can not doubt that I exist am( exist, am ) as a thinking thing iii) Therefore I am not identical with my body soul( body, soul )
Who came up with 'The Ghost in the Machine'?
Thomas Nagel
Gilbert Ryle
❌ is the position that everything can be explained and described in terms of ❌, therefore the ❌ is not needed to explain the nature of the self. There is no body/soul relationship for the simple fact that there is no ❌.
'But no matter how the form may vary, the fact that an organism has conscious experience at all means, basically, that there is something that it is like to be a bat@ Who said that?
David Hume
Daniel Dennett
Hume came up with the 'Replica Theory'
