>In that lucid moment I realized, too, that I was a blank fact, as empty and certain as a tautology, no less necessary, full of everything: I am I. Even if I am not Descartes and all this, too, is but a dream dreamt by someone else, I am then that other someone, that one, I am not nothing: I am the hollow nothing, in everything, I am you.
— Daniel Kolak, In Search of Myself: Life, Death, and Personal Identity (1999)
I would love to read his book on my Kindle, but the PDF is not the kind of file that automatically scales to fill the Kindle's screen, and the default text size is very small. Maybe if I had Adobe Acrobat I could manipulate it in some way to make it more suitable for the Kindle, but as it stands I can only read it at my desk in front of a computer monitor. I considered buying the Kindle version of the book, which is available on Amazon, but it's $231 for some reason. The hardcover is over $500! There is a version called simply "digital", which I imagine is just the PDF file itself, and this too is exorbitantly priced at just under $60. Why should this book be so incredibly expensive?
The title is fairly self-explanatory. For those who have read it, would you say that any other books or papers are needed to appreciate it (more or less)? What level of knowledge of the philosophy of personal identity would one need to possess?
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Hello there!
I am somewhat familiar with the different views on personal identity, but my knowledge is pretty limited. Some views tend to be skeptical of a "constant" self, Hume and Parfit seemed to view the self more as a bundle of experiences, which was used by parfit as an argument for consequentialism. Others, such as Daniel Kolak in "I am you" seem to argue even further, that our identity is rather the occurence of consciousness itself, regardless of where it is instantiated, or other people stating that we are, in an ultimate sense, an action of what the cosmos is doing and in some sense analogous with the whole (or seperation itself being always arbitrary, but I am not sure if such views are defended at all in academic philosophy). On the other hand, some views on identity base it more on personal biology, psychology and continuity and some ethical theories explicitely work with person affecting views, agency, virtue etc. Christine Korsgaard seems to argue for a "practical identity" based on parfits insights, although here I am not sure what she means and might need some clarification. The question is, is there a view that goes into the direction of claiming practical distinct entities or selfs, that can perhaps even construct a morality based on them, but more fundamentally, what we really are are bundles of experience, or movements of nature/the universe as a whole.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
When I got home, they were still there.
I won't be doing that today!
Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
There hasn't been a post all year!
It was about a weak back.
You take away their little brooms
It’s pronounced “Noel.”
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
