[Philosophy in Transit 03] • Self · Philosophy in Transit by Dainton, Barry -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page About the Author Dedication Prologue Self

1. Dreams and Destinations

There’s fast, and there’s really fast But is it really possible? From physics to metaphysics

2. Routes to the Modern Soul

Demons and vats Subjects and appearances Scientific revolutionaries The new worldview From science to soul The Cartesian soul Transworld interaction

3. The Liberation of the Self

Rational parrots, vampires and companionable aliens Personal identity Liberation from the soul Problems for Locke The Neo-Lockeans Causation: the essential (self-preserving) cement

4. The Phenomenal and the Psychological

Ultimate games machines A virtual adventure Streams of life Beyond personhood A paradox resolved

5. Selves, Powers and Subjects

Subjects versus persons The essence of self Some conceptual engineering Selves and potentials Capacity allocation: the C-solution Selves as C-systems The self and the future Real and illusory selves

6. Taking the Plunge

Unity Enter the Ego Self-unification A superfluous Ego Streams of experience A temporal paradox … and a resolution Building a stream of consciousness Insights and implications

7. What Matters (and Other Matters)

Teleportation revisited And Star Trek? What matters Psycho-copies Protean selves Limits and metaphysics An asymmetry Fission Interpreting division Surviving fission: a gateway to metaphysics The tube of choice

8. The Place of Mind in the World

Causes and ghosts Drones and drunkenness Turing contra Descartes Consciousness: still the hard(est) problem Emergence (and its limits) A naturalistic dualism Conscious matter And the self? Zombie selves

9. Future Selves

The transhuman From teleportation to speciation Virtual heavens Zombies in paradise To upload, or not? The simulation threat The many roads into the virtual A novel predicament Does the simulation argument undermine itself? An end of innocence

Epilogue: On Being Moved (or Not) by Time Notes References Acknowledgements Follow Penguin Copyright Page