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	<title>The Phantom Self</title>
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	<description>A Case for Conceptual Reform</description>
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		<title>Mirror Neurons for an “Exquisitely Social Species”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Damasio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gallese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kathryn Schulz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keysers]]></category>
		<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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		<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.  “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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Separateness of Persons</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[consciousness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Damasio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dennett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gallese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kathryn Schulz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keysers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mirror neurons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[other minds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rizzolatti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wimmer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theory of Other Minds]]></category>

		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[prudential concern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rationality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reasons and Persons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-concern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Extreme Claim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what matters]]></category>

		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[self-concern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sympathy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://phantomself.org/?p=514</guid>
		<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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		<title>Anticipation and the Extreme Claim</title>
		<link>http://phantomself.org/anticipation-and-the-extreme-claim/</link>
		<comments>http://phantomself.org/anticipation-and-the-extreme-claim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[anticipation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cartesian ego]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Lewis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human replication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motivation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parfit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prudential concern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raymond Martin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reasons and Persons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-concern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[subject of experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teleportation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Extreme Claim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unselfishness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Williams]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://phantomself.org/?p=498</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Apparent Rationality of Prudential Concern Consider the following apparently straightforward inference: I do not expect to die soon. Therefore I expect to be alive in the future. I expect I will have experiences in the future. I anticipate having experiences in the future. Because experiences can be pleasant or unpleasant, I have reason to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Towards a Scientific Theory of Persons</title>
		<link>http://phantomself.org/towards-a-scientific-theory-of-persons/</link>
		<comments>http://phantomself.org/towards-a-scientific-theory-of-persons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capgras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cotard's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kuhn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metzinger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motivation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neuroscience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Individualism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parfit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ramachandran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reasons and Persons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-concern]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://phantomself.org/?p=488</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Paradigm Shift I do not expect a theory of personhood to match all our pre-reflective philosophical intuitions, even if deeply considered and strongly felt (especially if strongly felt!) for two reasons: (1) our best intuitions on this subject are demonstrably unreliable, and (2) billions of otherwise sane and competent people hold beliefs about personal identity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Individualism – Being Everyone</title>
		<link>http://phantomself.org/open-individualism-%e2%80%93-being-everyone/</link>
		<comments>http://phantomself.org/open-individualism-%e2%80%93-being-everyone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[distributive justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Golden Rule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kolak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Individualism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parfit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal identity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://phantomself.org/?p=471</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The term “Open Individualism” has a positive ring. If Daniel Kolak hadn’t adopted it, I might have used the word “open” for my own theory of what persons are. I haven’t yet hit upon a term ending in “ism” to represent the idea that persons are informational entities, or (to say the same thing differently) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kolak: I Am You</title>
		<link>http://phantomself.org/kolak-i-am-you/</link>
		<comments>http://phantomself.org/kolak-i-am-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cartesian ego]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consciousness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Lewis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dennett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human fission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hume]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kolak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metzinger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nozick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Individualism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parfit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reasons and Persons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teleportation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thought experiment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fission]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://phantomself.org/?p=459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[People who think deeply about the puzzle cases of personal identity have come up with a variety of bold and radical responses. Like Alexander hacking through the Gordian knot, Parfit wielded an analytical scalpel to divide personal identity from what matters in personal survival, reaching the conclusion that ordinary survival is about as bad as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phantom Self at the Movies – Man on the Train</title>
		<link>http://phantomself.org/phantom-self-at-the-movies-%e2%80%93-man-on-the-train/</link>
		<comments>http://phantomself.org/phantom-self-at-the-movies-%e2%80%93-man-on-the-train/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Man on the Train]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://phantomself.org/?p=446</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’re in the mood for an intelligent movie about personal identity, I recommend Patrice LeComte’s Man on the Train (­L’Homme du Train, 2002).  It’s the story of a minor gangster, Milan, and a nearly-retired poetry teacher, Manesquier, who come together by chance. As they learn about each other, they are attracted to one another’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jihad of the Heart &#8211; episode 4</title>
		<link>http://phantomself.org/jihad-of-the-heart-episode-4/</link>
		<comments>http://phantomself.org/jihad-of-the-heart-episode-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[human replication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philosophy fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thought experiment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://phantomself.org/?p=437</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the final episode of the story.  If you haven’t read episode 1, start here. Javeed’s lawyer confronts him at the break.  “You didn’t shave this morning!”  Javeed doesn’t bother to answer.  He didn’t shave yesterday either. David brings his face down close, nose to nose, so that Javeed smells the lawyer’s sandwich.  “To [...]]]></description>
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