Finding Myself
Beyond the False Boundaries of Personal Identity
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Arnold Zuboff's Finding Myself argues for universalism, the view that all first-person experiences share the same 'I', challenging conventional boundaries between distinct selves.
The book presents thought experiments (including brain bisection and the 'hotel' inference) to show why the immediacy of experience should be taken as primary in personal identity.
Zuboff connects this view to issues in consciousness studies, the anthropic principle, and implications for ethics and religion.
He aims to resolve classic philosophical puzzles about personal identity, survival, and moral responsibility by relocating what matters to the first-person character of experience.
The book includes a foreword by Thomas Nagel, who calls the argument important and carefully presented.
The book presents thought experiments (including brain bisection and the 'hotel' inference) to show why the immediacy of experience should be taken as primary in personal identity.
Zuboff connects this view to issues in consciousness studies, the anthropic principle, and implications for ethics and religion.
He aims to resolve classic philosophical puzzles about personal identity, survival, and moral responsibility by relocating what matters to the first-person character of experience.
The book includes a foreword by Thomas Nagel, who calls the argument important and carefully presented.
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