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	<description>A Case for Conceptual Reform</description>
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		<title>Being Protean – Johnston’s Narratives of Survival</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 18:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[afterlife]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kolak]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mark Johnston]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New to the Phantom Self?  Read what this site is about, scan the Table of Contents,  or begin with the Introduction.  Contact the author – or comment on any post.  This is the second part of a two part review of Mark Johnston’s Surviving Death. Part 1 is here. Narratives of Personhood In the third [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Melanoma Journal 2 – Morning of Surgery</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 15:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[human replication]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[self-concern]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No breakfast for me, or lunch either. I’m not even allowed to drink clear fluids, since it’s less than four hours before my 10:30 AM check-in. But I cheated and had half a glass of water. I like the surgeon, and feel I am in good hands. Nevertheless, I will talk to him carefully before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anatta to Agape – Mark Johnston’s Surviving Death</title>
		<link>http://phantomself.org/anatta-to-agape-mark-johnstons-surviving-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[afterlife]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Animalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cartesian ego]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[motivation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[personal identity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[subject of experience]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a remarkable book, Surviving Death, Mark Johnston reaches several surprising conclusions about persons and personal identity. One of them, as the title implies, is that persons can survive their biological deaths. This claim does not depend on the existence of anything resembling an immaterial, substantial soul; Johnston’s account of post-death survival is entirely naturalistic. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Melanoma Journal – First Four Months</title>
		<link>http://phantomself.org/melanoma-journal-first-four-months/</link>
		<comments>http://phantomself.org/melanoma-journal-first-four-months/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[melanoma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://phantomself.org/?p=588</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Although I am, by habit, what is known as a ‘private’ person, I’ve decided to add some personal information to this blog because it is relevant to the topic, and because it may serve as a kind of empirical study (although necessarily anecdotal), a test case of how theory interacts with real life. I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parfit’s Retreat: “We Are Not Human Beings”</title>
		<link>http://phantomself.org/parfits-retreat-we-are-not-human-beings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animalism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[self interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-concern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teleportation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Extreme Claim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Self-Interest Theory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a new paper, “We Are Not Human Beings,” Derek Parfit argues that persons are identically their conscious, thinking parts, which he identifies as their cerebrums.  This is a significant departure from the position he defended in Reasons and Persons, that personal identity consists in non-branching psychological continuity and connectedness with any cause: Our identity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Unity of Persons</title>
		<link>http://phantomself.org/the-unity-of-persons/</link>
		<comments>http://phantomself.org/the-unity-of-persons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[conjoined twins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dennett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Epicharmus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motivation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parfit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal identity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://phantomself.org/?p=564</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A joke that comes down to us from Epicharmas of Kos, a 5th century BC comic playwright, is made topical by Greece’s debt crisis: Months after lending Yiannis five euros, Giorgos catches Yiannis’ sleeve in the agora and asks for his money back. “Ah,” says Yiannis, and stoops to gather a handful of pebbles. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mirror Neurons for an “Exquisitely Social Species”</title>
		<link>http://phantomself.org/mirror-neurons-for-an-exquisitely-social-species/</link>
		<comments>http://phantomself.org/mirror-neurons-for-an-exquisitely-social-species/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Damasio]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mirror neurons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neuroscience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patricia Churchland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[phantom limb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ramachandran]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://phantomself.org/?p=555</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“A unifying neural hypothesis on how individuals understand the actions and emotions of others” was presented to the world in 2004 by neuroscientists Gallese, Keysers and Rizzolatti. Our understanding of other minds, they claimed, is facilitated by “mirror neurons,” so-called because they fire when an individual performs or observes an action, and when she experiences [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Separateness of Persons</title>
		<link>http://phantomself.org/the-separateness-of-persons/</link>
		<comments>http://phantomself.org/the-separateness-of-persons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[consciousness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Damasio]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wimmer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://phantomself.org/?p=537</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are born into this world profoundly alone, our strange, unbounded minds trapped in our ordinary, earthwormy bodies—the condition that led Nietzche to refer to us, wonderingly, as “hybrids of plants and of ghosts.” We spend our lives trying to overcome this fundamental separation, but we can never entirely surmount it. Try as we might, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Does Matter</title>
		<link>http://phantomself.org/what-does-matter/</link>
		<comments>http://phantomself.org/what-does-matter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dennett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[egoism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Perry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On What Matters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parfit]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://phantomself.org/?p=524</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Derek Parfit’s Reasons and Persons began, “Many of us want to know what we have most reason to do.” He aimed to establish a foundation for ethics, a project which required addressing the conflicts between morality and self-interest. In asking what the claims of self-interest really are, Parfit came to grips with the question of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Sympathy</title>
		<link>http://phantomself.org/on-sympathy/</link>
		<comments>http://phantomself.org/on-sympathy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[anticipation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the war of ideas, the philosophy of personal identity is gradually giving way to the science of human motivation. As we come to a fuller understanding of how and why we tick, from neurological, evolutionary, and ethological perspectives, the puzzles of personal identity that have perplexed thinkers since Locke’s day become less puzzling. In [...]]]></description>
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