Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Dr. Josh Rasmussen, professor of philosophy at Baylor University, discusses the implications of the Apple Original TV show, "Severance", for two philosophical debates: (1) personal identity, and (2) the relationship between mind and body.

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00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:16 Topic 1 - Personal identity
00:06:17 Psychological accounts
00:18:17 Animalism accounts
00:41:18 Soul accounts
00:44:28 Primitive identity
00:51:31 Topic 2 - The mind-body problem
01:11:26 Substance monism
01:16:12 Consciousness after death
01:26:25 Is materialism simpler than substance monism?
01:34:20 Derek Parfit's "Split Brain" Thought Experiment