Soggetto e Memoria. Un approccio Neo Naturalista

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Subject and Memory. A Neo Naturalist Approach

In this paper I will introduce the Neo Naturalist account of Personal Identity. To defend this account, I will reconsider two key notions for psychological continuity theories, which are theoretically based on internalism and representionalism, the notion of present and the notion of memory. I will recast those two concepts under the light of the Spread Mind Theory, which is grounded on the idea that one’s experience of an object is identical with the object itself. Adopting this premise, memories are not considered as mental states anymore, but they are physical objects, which present a causal proximity, with ours bodies, different from normal perception. In the same way, what we call our present is not a spatio-temporal point, but it is a set of physical objects connected with our physical bodies. Finally, following the physicalist hypothesis proposed by the Spread Mind, I will claim that we are not a bunch of ideas or mental states, neither are we the mechanical functioning of our brain-body, rather, we are identical with that part of physical world which takes place relative to our physical body.

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