„A Life Hack with a Future“
Prof. Elijah Millgram (University of Utah):
„A Life Hack with a Future“
Personal identity – what it takes to be the same person over time – is best understood from what Dennett called the design stance. Rather than pursue traditional conceptual analysis – a list of necessary and sufficient conditions for being who you now are, later on – I'll develop a creature-construction argument turning on bounded-rationality constraints, and attempt to recover central features of personal identity. I will focus on the time it takes to complete investigations, the need to monitor other-things-equal inferences for correctness, and the imperative, within the context of protracted and openended investigations, to accrue generic resources and strategic positioning.
Everybody interested is warmly welcome!