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Status: Personal Identity (2023 - June)

(Text as at 06/07/2023 00:43:12)

Rationale for this Project

• I am researching the subject of Personal Identity primarily because of its intrinsic interest and importance. It is really a sub-topic in my Philosophy of Religion¹ project, with its penultimate chapter considering the metaphysical possibility of resurrection.
• While I’m interested in the topic of my research in its own right, I think when I’ve sorted it out a bit, and have something to say, I’ll want to engage with other philosophers active in this field – and re-starting a PhD at Birkbeck or elsewhere might be the only effective way to do this.
• While a PhD is not an end in itself, and certainly not the ultimate aim of my doing philosophy, it’s still true that a PhD would teach me research techniques, provide focus and direction, and furnish a professional qualification should I want to publish any results in this or any other area of philosophy.
• The best place to get an overview of my current views is here².
• The jumping-off point for my thesis is here³, though follow the links from the Chapter Abstracts for the real work, and a progress dashboard is here⁴.

Summary of Progress during April - June 2023

1. I spent 150.25 hours in 23Q2 on this Project, or related work (497.25 hours YTD, where for "YTD" - Year to Date - I mean the (academic) year that commenced in October 2022). That's 65% of the planned effort (71% YTD). Overall, 19.8% of my Project effort in the Quarter was directed towards this project (making 25.6% YTD) - as against 30.5% planned (34.2% YTD).
2. As can be seen, I used only about 2/3 of my time budget – which had been retained at the reduced amount from the previous quarter. The reason for the shortfall for this project was partly down to the distraction of our new dog, Bertie, but mostly– as has so often been the case – down to a resurgence of Bridge, both playing and administrative duties.
3. However, I did quite a lot directly related to my Thesis – in particular reviewing the other half of my Thesis Notes.
4. To control the various links within my Thesis, I’ve created and maintained a PID Note Usage⁵ Page, though this didn’t get much of a look in this Quarter.
5. I completed four books started last Quarter, namely:-
   → "Benjamin (Medea), Davies (Nicolas J.S.), vanden Heuvel (Katrina) - War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict",
   → "Hand (David) - The Improbability Principle: Why coincidences, miracles and rare events happen all the time",
   → "Ricketts (Peter) - Hard Choices: What Britain Does Next", and
   → "Zamoyski (Adam) - Poland: A history",
6. I added three more books to my collection, the last two at the suggestion of my son, Nat, for immediate reading:-
   → "Doyle (Andrew) - The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World",
   → "Frankl (Viktor E.) - Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust", and
   → "Saint-Exupery (Antoine de) - The Little Prince".
   Indeed, I’ve now read the last two, though the book by Frankl deserves more comments than I’ve given it so far.
7. It’s never possible to do it justice to Aeon, when a dozen or so interesting papers turn up every week. I continue to lose the fight to restrict the top priority to 10 items. Some work to do next quarter.
8. Progress between reports can be obtained from the relevant section of my Summary Task List⁶.
9. A full list of items worked on in the quarter appears below:-
   Thesis (Total Hours = 93)
   1. Thesis - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 85)
      • "Aeon - Video - Could we have babies in space?" (Read / Write, 0.75 hours)
      • "Aeon - Video - Eliminative Materialism" (Read / Write, 0.5 hours)
      • "Aeon - Video - Everything is a remix: AI and image generation" (Read / Write, 1 hour)
      • "Aeon - Video - Gecko grip" (Read / Write, 0.75 hours)
      • "Aeon - Video - Ndagukunda déjà (I Love You, Already)" (Read / Write, 1.5 hours)
      • "Aeon - Video - Our ark" (Read / Write, 1.5 hours)
      • "Aeon - Video - The science of cuteness" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "BBC - Philosophers justifying slavery" (Write, 0.75 hours)
      • "BBC, Burgess (Gary) - Why do we know so little about ME?" (Write, 0.5 hours)
      • "Doyle (Andrew) - The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World" (Write, 1 hour)
      • "Drosnin (Michael) - The Bible Code" (Write, 1.25 hours)
      • "Frankl (Viktor E.) - Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust" (Read / Write, 5 hours)
      • "Gray (John) - Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals" (Write, 1 hour)
      • "Hand (David) - The Improbability Principle: Why coincidences, miracles and rare events happen all the time" (Read / Write, 10.5 hours)
      • "Harre (Rom) - On Being a Person: Problems Of Self" (Write, 1 hour)
      • "IANDS - Journal of Near-Death Studies" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Kobie (Nicole) - The risks of the generative AI gold rush" (Read / Write, 3 hours)
      • "Rowlands (Mark) - The Clearing" (Read / Write, 3 hours)
      • "Saint-Exupery (Antoine de) - The Little Prince" (Read / Write, 6 hours)
      • "Satinover (Jeffrey) - The Truth Behind the Bible Code" (Write, 1.5 hours)
      • "Sellman (Mark) - Pause or panic: battle to tame the Al monster" (Read, 2 hours)
      • "Seth (Anil Kumar) - Being You: A New Science of Consciousness" (Write, 1 hour)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Henry" (Write, 1.75 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Indeterminate Identity" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Information" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Intermittent Objects" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Ivan Ilych" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Kinds" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Language of Thought" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Lewis" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Life" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Life After Death" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Logic of Identity" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Makropulos Case" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Matter" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Memory" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Mereology" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Metamorphosis" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Modality" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Narrative Identity" (Write, 0.75 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Natural Kinds" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Naturalism" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Near Death Experiences" (Write, 0.5 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Nihilism" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Non-Human Persons" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Numerical Idenity" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Occasional Identity" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Olson" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Ontology" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Origins" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Out of Body Experiences" (Write, 0.75 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Parfit" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Partial Identity" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Perdurantism" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Persistence Criteria" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Persistent Vegetative State" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Person" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Personality" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Physicalism" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Pregnancy" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Probability" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Process Metaphysics" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Psychological Continuity" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Psychological Continuity - Forward" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Psychology" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Psychopathology" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Race" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Reductionism" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Reincarnation" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Relative Identity" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Religion" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Replication" (Write, 0.5 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Resurrection" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Self" (Write, 0.5 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Self-Consciousness" (Write, 0.5 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Ship of Theseus" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Siliconisation" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Sleep" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Society" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Sortals" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Soul Criterion" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Souls" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Statue and the Clay" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Supervenience" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Survival" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Taking Persons Seriously" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Teletransportation" (Write, 0.5 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Thinking Animal Argument" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Thought Experiments" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Time" (Write, 0.5 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Time Travel" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Transhumanism" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Transplants" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Twinning" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Unity of the Person" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Universals" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Wantons" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - What Are We?" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - What Matters" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Wiggins" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Zombies" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Todman (Theo) - Thesis - Zygote" (Write, 0.5 hours)
      • "Walker (Matthew P.) - Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams" (Read / Write, 11.25 hours)
      • "Wikipedia - Amoeba (genus)" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Wikipedia - Anterograde amnesia" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Wikipedia - Blastocyst" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Wikipedia - Cauchy Distribution" (Write, 0.5 hours)
      • "Wikipedia - Cytokinesis" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Wikipedia - Dizygotic (fraternal) twins" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Wikipedia - Group C nerve fiber" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Wikipedia - Mitosis" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Wikipedia - Monozygotic (identical) twins" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Wikipedia - Near-death experience" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Wikipedia - Normal Distribution" (Write, 0.5 hours)
      • "Wikipedia - Persistent vegetative state" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Wikipedia - Pre-embryo" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Wikipedia - Prosecutor's fallacy" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Wikipedia - Retrograde amnesia" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Wikipedia - Ship of Theseus" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Wikipedia - Teleportation" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Wikipedia - Teletransportation paradox" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Wikipedia - Twin" (Write, 0.25 hours)
      • "Wikipedia - Zygote" (Write, 0.25 hours)
   2. Thesis - Research Repositioning (Total Hours = 8)
      • Admin - Office Reorganisation (1.5 hours)
      • "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (April - June)" (6.5 hours)
   Thesis Background (Total Hours = 32.25)
   1. Thesis Background - Reading / Writing (Total Hours = 27)
      • "Benjamin (Medea), Davies (Nicolas J.S.), vanden Heuvel (Katrina) - War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict" (Read / Write, 4 hours)
      • "Dostoyevsky (Fyodor), Magarshack (David) - The Brothers Karamazov" (Read, 0.25 hours)
      • "Ricketts (Peter) - Hard Choices: What Britain Does Next" (Read / Write, 5.25 hours)
      • "Smith (C. Paul) - The Climate Change Hoax Argument: the history and science that expose a major international deception" (Write, 0.75 hours)
      • "Zamoyski (Adam) - Poland: A history" (Read / Write, 16.75 hours)
   2. Thesis Background - Books Admin
      • "Admin - Catalogue Papers and Books (including Abstract improvements)" (0.75 hours)
   3. Thesis Background - Status
      • 23Q1 Status Reports (4.5 hours)
        → See "Admin - Thesis Planning+Admin (April - June)" (4.5 hours)
   Thesis (Aeon) (Total Hours = 25)
   • "Aeon - Video - The art of two-way art" (Read / Write, 0.75 hours)
   • Aeon: Hoeg - Aphantasia can be a gift to philosophers and critics like me (Comments; Write, 0.25 hours)
   • Aeon: Jordan - Warfare as mercy and love (Comments; Read, 0.75 hours)
   • Aeon: Rao - Here’s to blue foods (Comments; Read, 0.75 hours)
   • Aeon: Venkataraman - Lessons from the foragers (Comments; Write, 0.5 hours)
   • Aeon: Video - A journey at the dawn of photography (Comments; Read, 0.5 hours)
   • Aeon: Video - Ancient wine drinking (Comments; Read, 0.5 hours)
   • Aeon: Video - Aristotle's ergon - Listen, I've got this all figured out (Comments; Read, 0.25 hours)
   • Aeon: Video - Carl Sagan on Eratosthenes (Comments; Read / Write, 0.5 hours)
   • Aeon: Video - Five graphs that changed the world (Comments; Read / Write, 0.75 hours)
   • Aeon: Video - Shakespear's First Folio (Comments; Read / Write, 0.5 hours)
   • Aeon: Video - Three ways to think about free will (Comments; Read, 0.25 hours)
   • "Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) - Aeon: 2019+" (Write, 18.5 hours)
   • "Jaarsma (Ada) - Choose your own birth" (Read, 0.25 hours)

Plans for the Near Future – Top Priority Tasks

• One thing that repeatedly occurs to me is that I’ve got into the habit of collecting stuff – masses of it – and loosely engaging with it, but not doing so seriously enough because of a scatter-gun approach. Also, I very seldom write anything of my own without close reference to what others have written. In a sense this is a good thing but is destructive of creativity.
• So, I intend to spend at least an hour each and every day writing my own stuff. This isn’t really enough, but we’ll see how things go. Sadly, it hasn’t gone anywhere much in the last academic year.
• So, I have set myself a challenge: write a full-length paper on what I consider to be the critical issue in the philosophy of personal identity: the difference between forward and backward psychological continuity⁷. Sadly, this hasn’t got far yet.
• I now seem to have a skeleton thesis⁸ in place. This now needs to be filled out.
• First of all, continually review the Note describing my Current Beliefs⁹ on the topic of Personal Identity, and ensure the associated Notes have some text. Let Sophie have a look at it, and consider submission to Aeon.
• An “ideal” next step (and one previously suggested) is to ensure that everything of relevance that I have actually read is written up and incorporated in my Notes database and only later – and secondly – consider anything that I have not yet read. This would require discipline, in that interesting new stuff is always turning up, and would be an iterative process. Further, given I’m not getting any younger, it could also be wasting time which should be focussed on using the most relevant materials.
• So, if what I’ve read and written on – in the form of particular papers on a particular topic – is most relevant, I’ll “process” that, but otherwise will start anew.
• As far as effort is concerned, I’ve had to stick with the plan of 18 hours / week₁₀. I hope to move back to 24 hours / week next quarter, once our new dog Bertie is fully ‘bedded in’, I’ve got my Bridge under control and the holiday season is out of the way.
• In the coming quarter I hope to
  1. Ensure that all recently acquired Books and pdfs are logged to my database and appear in the relevant Thesis Chapters, as appropriate.
  2. Complete a commentary on "Olson (Eric) - What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology".
• Most of what I’m working on appears in the reading lists for the Thesis chapters. Items below are either those that don’t, or a few which require particular focus:-
  
  1. Continue with my Thesis¹¹; in particular
     1. Spend at least an hour a day writing something original.
        1. This was going to be an essay on the difference between Forward and Backward Psychological Continuity¹², and I ought to continue with this given how important it is, but ...
        2. I've decided to write a long essay - possibly a book - on Henry¹³, my recently-deceased dog, which - as well as being cathartic - raises lots of questions related to Animalism¹⁴.
           
     2. Continue filling out those sections of my Thesis that I can write something on without further research, using books / papers already analysed.
  2. Continually review the Note describing my Current Beliefs¹⁵ on the topic of Personal Identity.
  3. Regularly review and update of the Notes I’ve created on Personal Identity, focusing on those directly referenced by my Current Beliefs¹⁶.
  4. Make progress on specific Chapters of my Thesis, using the tasks outlined in my Thesis Dashboard¹⁷, using the materials listed₁₈ in the Chapters and underlying Notes.
  5. Ensure the following foundational Books₁₉ required for my Thesis are fully annotated. In particular:-
     1. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View",
     2. "Olson (Eric) - The Human Animal - Personal Identity Without Psychology", and
     3. "Olson (Eric) - What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology".
  6. Read and comment on₂₀ the following remaining PhD Theses relevant to my own Thesis:-
     1. "Baggini (Julian) - Psychological Reductionism About Persons: A Critical Development",
     2. "Eddebo (Johan) - Death and the Self: A Metaphysical Investigation of the Rationality of Afterlife Beliefs in the Contemporary Intellectual Climate",
     3. "Ferner (Adam) - Metaphysics and biology: a critique of David Wiggins’ account of personal identity",
     4. "Gendler (Tamar Szabo) - Imaginary Exceptions: On the Powers and Limits of Thought Experiment",
     5. "Keles (Serap) - Personal identity and persistence over time : the hybrid view with regard to hylomorphism",
     6. "Lechthaler (Manuel) - Composition and Identities",
     7. "Lybaert (Fauve) - Personal Identity and the Formal Self",
     8. "Paez (Eze) - Abortion: What We Ought to Believe - An Ontological and Normative Analysis",
     9. "Parsons (Josh) - Theories of Persistence",
     10. "Rau (Philipp) - The Author, Not the Tale: Memory, Narrative, and the Self",
     11. "Skow (Bradford) - Once Upon a Spacetime",
     12. "Southgate (Susan Jane) - Personal Identity: The Simple View",
     13. "Trakas (Marina) - Personal Memories", and
     14. "Woods (Evan Thomas) - The Problems of the Many".
  7. "Kotak (Aakash) - The Hybrid Theory of Personal Identity" (MPhil Thesis; Read and comment on)
  8. Apply the issues raised by recently-read PhD Theses relevant to my own Thesis to my various Notes:-
     1. "Atkinson (Thomas) - Human organisms and the survival of death: a systematic evaluation of the possibility of life after death given animalism",
     2. "Hodson (Sommer) - A Hybrid View of Personal Identity",
  9. Follow up on Keith Augustine's comments on my review of "Hershenov (David) - Review of Nancey Murphy's 'Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?'".
  10. Follow up on Wayne Stewart's comments on my Note on Closest Continuers²¹, including reading and reviewing the following:-
      1. "Epstein (Dmitry) - What if We’re Still Here? A Selfish Reason to Care for Future Generations",
      2. "Stewart (Wayne) - Metaphysics by Default - Chapter 9:  Existential Passage",
      3. "Stewart (Wayne) - Metaphysics by Default",
      4. "Stewart (Wayne) - Uzgalis: Accidentally Opening a Transmigration Window by Nixing the Proper Continuer",
      5. "Clark (Tom) - A Notable Theoretical Convergence",
      6. "Robert (David) - The Existential Passage Hypothesis",
      7. "Uzgalis (William) - Review - Dainton - The Phenomenal Self", and
      8. "Clark (Tom) - Death, Nothingness, and Subjectivity"
  11. Complete analysing the following papers₂₂:-
      → "Cofnas (Nathan) - Research on group differences in intelligence: A defense of free inquiry",
      → "Corabi (Joseph) & Schneider (Susan) - The Metaphysics of Uploading",
      → "Giusti (Elena) & Derbew (Sarah) - Decolonizing Blackness, alongside the Classics Curriculum: A conversation with Dr Sarah Derbew",
      → "Loose (Jonathan) - Materialism Most Miserable The Prospects for Dualist and Physicalist Accounts of Resurrection",
      → "Olson (Eric) - The Central Dogma Of Transhumanism",
      → "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Materialism and the Psychological-continuity Account of Personal Identity",
      → "Watkin (Christopher) - Christianity and critical race theory"
  12. As background tasks:-
      1. Ensure all items in:-
         → "Various - Papers on Desktop", and
         → "Various - Papers in Desk Drawer"
         are either addressed or re-filed.
      2. Maintain "Various - Papers & Books Yet To Be Logged", and log papers therein if they become important.
      3. Convert old PDFs to Notes:-
         1. Review the two reports:-
            → PDF-précis,
            → PDF-essays²³.
         2. Determine how the first is produced, and why the pdfs aren't highlighted, and compare with Write-ups Notes Jump Table
         3. Convert outstanding Essays & Précises.
            
      4. Complete cataloguing the books downloaded from Springer,
      5. Continue / complete reading / annotating various books that have landed in my in-tray:-
         1. "Barash (David P.) - Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are",
         2. "Blatti (Stephan) & Snowdon (Paul), Eds. - Animalism: New Essays on Persons, Animals, and Identity",
         3. "Borges (Jorge Luis) - Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings",
         4. "Bostrom (Nick) - Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies",
         5. "Bradley (Ben), Feldman (Fred) & Johansson (Jens) - The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death",
         6. "Dennett (Daniel) - Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking",
         7. "Doyle (Andrew) - The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World",
         8. "Erber (Joan T.) & Szuchman (Lenore T.) - Great Myths of Aging",
         9. "Green (Joel B.) - Body, Soul, and Human Life: The Nature of Humanity in the Bible",
         10. "Hasker (William) - The Emergent Self",
         11. "Hofstadter (Douglas) & Dennett (Daniel), Eds. - The Mind's I - Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul",
         12. "Kagan (Shelly) - How to Count Animals, more or less",
         13. "Korsgaard (Christine) - Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals",
         14. "Levitin (Daniel) - The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well",
         15. "Marshall (Richard) - Philosophy at 3:AM: Questions and Answers with 25 Top Philosophers",
         16. "Martin (L. Michael) & Augustine (Keith) - The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death",
         17. "Miller (Kristie) - Issues in Theoretical Diversity: Persistence, Composition, and Time",
         18. "Rowlands (Mark) - The Philosopher and the Wolf",
         19. "Ricard (Matthieu) - A Plea for the Animals: The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion",
         20. "Schneider (Susan) - Artificial You",
         21. "Seth (Anil Kumar) - Being You: A New Science of Consciousness",
         22. "Seung (Sebastian) - Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are",
         23. "Smith (C. Paul) - The Climate Change Hoax Argument: the history and science that expose a major international deception",
         24. "Walker (Matthew P.) - Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams",
         25. "Wilson (Jack) - Biological Individuality - The identity and Persistence of Living Entities",
         26. "Wright (Craig) - The Hidden Habits of Genius: Beyond Talent, IQ, and Grit - Unlocking the Secrets of Greatness", and
         27. "Wyatt (John) - Matters of Life and Death".
             
      6. Complete my Note on "Smith (Martin) - Why Throwing 92 Heads in a Row Is Not Surprising" and discuss with Pete & Mike.
      7. Continue reading and reviewing papers issued by Aeon²⁴ (and the occasional spin-off). In particular, complete write-ups for:-
         → "Francione (Gary) & Charlton (Anna E.) - The case against pets"
         → "Francione (Gary) - We must not own animals"
         → "Friston (Karl) - Karl Friston: Embodied cognition"
         → "Humphrey (Nicholas) - Seeing and somethingness"
         → "Jaarsma (Ada) - Choose your own birth"
         → "Lachmann (Michael) & Walker (Sara) - Life ≠ alive"
         → "Neumeyer (Joy) - The discontent of Russia"
         → "Marino (Lori) - Happy the person"
         → "Metzinger (Thomas) - Are you sleepwalking now?"
         → "Schwenkler (John) - What does it take for someone to become a ‘different person’?"
         → "Sebo (Jeff) & Schukraft (Jason) - Don’t farm bugs"
         → "Sebo (Jeff) - Against human exceptionalism"
         → "Sunar (Neesa) - I have no mind's eye: let me try to describe it for you"
         → "Zangwill (Nick) - Why you should eat meat"
         → "Zangwill (Nick) - Our Moral Duty to Eat Meat"
      8. Keep up with the Journals via JSTOR & Cambridge Core.
      9. Update my Journals Note²⁵: Review the journals I have access to; more are available as a Cambridge Alumnus.
      10. Keep up with the philosophical world by regular reviews of "Interaction - Philos-List", but only seriously pursue items relevant to my research.

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In-Page Footnotes:

Footnote 10:

• 24 hours / week – while still ludicrously inadequate for what I want to achieve – is approximately what would be expected of a part-time research student.

Footnote 18:

• I used to itemise in this Note an ever-growing list of items accummulated over time, broken down by Chapter and Note.
• However, now both Chapters and Notes are getting into shape, there is no need to list these items again here, so they have been cut after checking they are covered in their place elsewhere.

Footnote 19:

• This list could get very long, so restrict it to 3 books!
• I'll replace these with new ones when completed.

Footnote 20:

• There are rather a lot of these, so some will have to be skimmed.
• There were a few more on less central topics.
• I hope to whittle these down as time goes by!

Footnote 22:

• This list used to get inordinately long and has been culled.
• Ensure this doesn't happen again!

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Table of the Previous 12 Versions of this Note: (of 88)

Date	Length	Title
30/04/2023 01:06:14	17972	Status: Personal Identity (2023 - March)
10/01/2023 23:35:31	13323	Status: Personal Identity (2022 - December)
10/10/2022 22:32:10	14411	Status: Personal Identity (2022 - September)
03/07/2022 01:29:17	19603	Status: Personal Identity (2022 - June)
11/04/2022 00:01:26	17429	Status: Personal Identity (2022 - March)
03/01/2022 23:58:34	25490	Status: Personal Identity (2021 - December)
02/07/2021 20:32:38	17373	Status: Personal Identity (2021 - June)
03/04/2021 19:58:05	33235	Status: Personal Identity (2021 - March)
04/01/2021 19:40:48	27330	Status: Personal Identity (2020 - December)
04/10/2020 00:27:22	34087	Status: Personal Identity (2020 - September)
03/07/2020 22:09:07	34006	Status: Personal Identity (2020 - June)
04/04/2020 00:14:24	24588	Status: Personal Identity (2020 - March)

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Note last updated	Reference for this Topic	Parent Topic
06/07/2023 00:43:12	518 (Status: Personal Identity (2023 - June))	Status: Summary (2023 - June)

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Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

Aeon Papers	Animalism	Closest Continuer	Henry	PID Note, Book & Paper Usage
Psychological Continuity - Forward	Status: Philosophy of Religion (2023 - June)	Status: Summary Task List (2023: July - September)	Status: Thesis Dashboard (2023: September)	Theo Todman's BA Papers
Thesis - Current Stance	Thesis - Introduction	Thesis - Journals

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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Simon - T1S1T1	Status: Consciousness Studies (2023 - June)	Status: Priority Task List (2023 - September)	Status: Summary (2023 - June), 2	Status: Summary Task List (2023: July - September)
Status: Summary Task List (YTD: 22Q4 - 23Q3)	Theo Todman's Philosophy Page	Theo Todman's Philosophy Research	Thesis - Method & Form	Website - Progress to Date (2023 - September), 2
Website Generator Documentation - Functors, 2, 3, 4, 5

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Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note

Author	Title	Medium	Extra Links	Read?
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - The Form of the Argument	Paper		Yes

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