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Thomas Hobbes, De Corpore - "Of Identity And Difference" - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the modern philosopher Thomas Hobbes' work De Corpore, specifically ch 11. "Of Identity and Difference", part 7 In this section, Hobbes explores questions and problems of what makes a thing remain the same thing throughout its changes over ti ...  Show more

Stanislaw Lem, Summa Technologiae - Defrosting And Duplicating - Sadler's Lectures

This video focuses on chapter 6 of Stanislaw Lem's Summa Technologiae, specifically the section “Personality and Information”, which discusses thought experiments that bear on turning a person into information and reconstituting that person somewhere else or at a different point ...  Show more

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