Do Your Memories or Your Morals Make You You?
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Philosophers have long thought that memory is the key to maintaining a continuous self–to feeling like the same person from one day to the next. But philosopher Jesse Prinz is turning that idea on its head. At the 2016 World Science Festival, he discussed his work in the new field of experimental psychology and his revelation that the true key to maintaining a self is morality.
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