Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Derik Parfit’s thought experiments are all attempts to preserve and defend the notion of personal identity.
2. The problem of Theseus’s ship is that two ships were manufactured to look alike and Theseus could not tell them apart.
3. When the corpus callosum is cut, two different centers of consciousness can be created.
4. An outcome of Parfit’s view is that the person I am at eighteen will not be the same person as the successor self who dies at seventy-eight.
F 1. Derik Parfit’s thought experiments are all attempts to preserve and defend the notion of personal identity.
F 2. The problem of Theseus’s ship is that two ships were manufactured to look alike and Theseus could not tell them apart.
T 3. When the corpus callosum is cut, two different centers of consciousness can be created.
T 4. An outcome of Parfit’s view is that the person I am at eighteen will not be the same person as the successor self who dies at seventy-eight.
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