Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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- VIDEO NOTES

The non-identity problem was first described by Derek Parfit in the 1980s. Can you solve it?

- LINKS

Read Parfit's chapter on the problem online: https://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil308/Parfit1.pdf

- TIMESTAMPS

0:00 A Mother's Choice
8:36 Real Life Cases
13:01 Just Choose the Better Outcome!
19:31 Conservation vs Depletion

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