Part 3 of 3. What makes you the same person as the little kid growing up a number of years ago? Is the identity of a person tied to the persistence of a body or a soul or something else entirely? Can we even give any explanation at all of the persistence of a person? Michael Della Rocca (Yale University) explores some of the puzzles and problems of personal identity that arise from the revolutionary work of the philosopher John Locke. [10:08]

Concepts

memory, john locke

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Additional Tags

consciousness, khan academy, the branching problem, the brave officer problem, the breakfast problem, thomas reid, transitivity of identity

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