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Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

Teresa McCormack closed the on with “The value of remembering and anticipating experiences: a developmental perspective”

It was—as Teresa put it—dangerously close to an talk. It adapted a famous thought experiment (from Derek Parfit?) to test kids’ and adults’ intuitions about how much we care about past, present, or future versions of us.

Follow Dr. McCormack on gScholar: scholar.google.com/citations?u

An adaptation of Derek Parfit's medical pain thought experiment.
results with the initial vignette
initial findings suggest that Derek Parfit was at least partially wrong (about folk intuitions)
Some more recent data suggesting adding nuance to initial finding
#personalIdentity#PhilMind#psychology
Jun 26, 2023, 05:07 PM·Public·Web
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