The Brain Transplant Argument

[Philo]

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Identity is just a conceptual convention we use. It's all labels. There is no such thing as identity "really."

Again - I can hardly prove this. But, again - I think these views of identity are unsupportable and nonsensical, based on arbitrary premises that nobody in their right mind actually accepts.

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Do you think that objects do not really persist because identity seems incompatible with change? If so, do you reject four-dimensionalism as well?

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I think identity is epistemological - no, not even that, linguistic - rather than metaphysical.

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Ok, but I'm asking why you think that.