Continuing Personal Existence After Death (AQA A-Level Religious Studies): Flashcards
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Personal identity
Personal identity
What makes someone the same person throughout their life
3 approaches to personal identity
3 approaches to personal identity
Physical (body/brain), metaphysical (soul), psychological (memory)
Spatio-temporal continuity
Spatio-temporal continuity
Body/brain trace unbroken path through space & time
Parfit's Bundle theory
Parfit's Bundle theory
Identity depends on number of features, not core self
Hick's Replica theory
Hick's Replica theory
God raises perfect replica retaining mind-body identity
Karma in Hindu belief
Karma in Hindu belief
Actions (good/bad) in this life determining next incarnation
Cryptomnesia
Cryptomnesia
Forgotten memory experienced without recognising it as past event
Common NDE features (3 examples)
Common NDE features (3 examples)
Out-of-body experience, light, dark tunnel, beings of light
Dennett's Centre of Narrative Gravity
Dennett's Centre of Narrative Gravity
Self as organisation of info; consciousness as virtual machine
Objective immortality (Process Theology)
Objective immortality (Process Theology)
Persons stay in God's mind but lack self-conscious states