What makes a mind and a self persist?
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From the fifth century BCE
Not-self analysis opens a tradition that treats persons as aggregates and causal processes.
Buddhist not-self — Continuity without an owner
1641
The Latin Meditations appears in Paris and places the mind-body distinction at center stage.
Descartes — The thinking self and the extended body
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1694
The second edition of the Essay adds the chapter on identity and diversity.
Locke — The same person as far as consciousness reaches
October 1974
Nagel's article makes the subjective character of consciousness a central problem in philosophy of mind.
Nagel — Does the bat’s point of view survive physical explanation?