dennett’s where am i?. dennett’s “where am i?” cast of characters yorick: dennett’s...
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Dennett’sWhere Am I?
![Page 2: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Dennett’s “Where Am I?”Cast of Characters
• Yorick: Dennett’s original brain
• Hamlet: Dennett’s original body
• Fortinbras: second body (Yorick’s 2nd, Hubert’s 1st)
• Hubert: a computer that instantiates Yorick
• Narrator: “Dennett”
![Page 3: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Two Things to Consider
• False Dilemma
• Here, There, Now, Today, I
What do these words have in common?
![Page 4: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
The Plot
Scientists approach Dennett to go on a secret mission to disarm a nuclear device named STUD. The mission could be highly dangerous to Dennett’s brain (but not his body). Scientists have figured out a way to send Dennett’s body (Hamlet) on the mission while leaving his brain (Yorick) behind in the lab.
![Page 5: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Act IDennett goes wireless
• Dennett agrees to go. His brain is surgically removed from his body and placed in a vat.
• His brain controls his body via implants, transmitters and antennae. With the flip of a switch, the connection between his brain and his body can be severed. With another flip of the switch, the connection can be re-established.
![Page 6: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Surgery is a Success
• Where am I?• Indexicals: here vs. there• Where are his thoughts tokened?
![Page 7: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Where is Dennett?
Hamlet YorickPOV
![Page 8: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
1st Possible AnswerHamlet (body)
• Brain/Body Swap
• Which would he prefer survive, body or brain?
![Page 9: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
The Body
P1: If Dennett is Hamlet Dennett prefers to go the ⊃
way of Hamlet.P2: Dennett doesn’t prefer to go the way of Hamlet.C: Therefore, Dennett isn’t Hamlet.
![Page 10: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
![Page 11: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Brain/Body Swap
![Page 12: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
2nd Possible AnswerYorick (brain)
• Suppose Hamlet (body) gets on a train in Texas for CA where he holds up a liquor store. The police capture him.
![Page 13: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Which Do We Lock Up?
• Yorick in Texas or Hamlet in CA
![Page 14: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
If Dennett is Yorick
P1: They want to convict DennettP2: Dennett is YorickC: They must convict and lock up Yorick.
What’s the problem?
![Page 15: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Is Dennett Still Free?
![Page 16: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
The BrainYorick
P1: If Dennett is Yorick Dennett is imprisoned when ⊃Yorick is.P2: Dennett isn’t imprisoned when Yorick is.C: Therefore, Dennett isn’t Yorick.
![Page 17: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
3rd Possible Answer Point of View
Personal identity is a matter of POV At any given time a person has a POV, the person just is wherever that POV is.
![Page 18: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
3rd Possible Answer POV
• Dennett (I) heads for Tulsa.• Dennett (I) descends into the earth under Tulsa in
search of the atomic warhead.• Trouble: radio links break down, the body loses all
contact with the brain• Result: shift in POV• Buried alive in Oklahoma --> Disembodied in Houston
![Page 19: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Problems
![Page 20: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
False Dilemma
![Page 21: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Act II
• Dennett disarms the STUD. Hamlet is destroyed in the process. Yorick lives on in the vat, but is now deprived of all sensory input.
![Page 22: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Act III Enter Fortinbras
• Scientists establish a connection between Yorick and the new body, Fortinbras.
![Page 23: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Act III
• Fortinbras vists Yorick and learns about Hubert. Hubert is running alongside Yorick.
• Hubert is a computer program that instantiates Yorick exactly. (If as AI would have it, brain is a computer and the mind is the program then the mind is capable of multiple realizations)
![Page 24: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
Act III
• Both Yorick & Hubert can interact with Fortinbras. A switch allows either to be in control & there is a feedback between the two.
• Both brains work in conjunction with Fortinbras (the body). They both carry the same stream of memory and consciousness (Dennett’s).
![Page 25: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
Where is Dennett?
![Page 26: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
Two Dennetts?
• Suppose someone detaches Yorick or Hubert from Fortinbras and hitches it to some other body?
![Page 27: Dennett’s Where Am I?. Dennett’s “Where Am I?” Cast of Characters Yorick: Dennett’s original brain Hamlet: Dennett’s original body Fortinbras: second](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062321/56649ece5503460f94bdbf0c/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Grand Finale
• Who has been telling the story?• Yorick and Hubert don’t seem to have the same
voice, don’t seem to share the same identity