Science Fiction and Philosophy Test 1.

Philosophy is primarily the study of?

Proper thinking.

What is considered a science fiction "Trope"?

Aliens, Time Travel, and Space

In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, light represents:

Reality

TRUE OR FALSE.... Science focuses on observation of the world while philosophy focuses on how we reason and create ideas about the world around us?

True

In the first half of the course, we studied an argument by Nick Bostrom relating to the possibility of living in a simulation. What assumption does he base his argument off of?

We are in a simulation

John Locke Memory Theory believes that our personal identity exists over time because we occupy the same body.

No, John Locke's Memory theory believes Personal Identity persists over time because you retain memories of yourself at different points.

Is there only one theory on personal identity?

No, there is more than one theory on personal identity.

What is the Memory Theory?

Personal Identity persists over time because you retain memories of yourself at different points

What situation can be a problem for the memory theory of personal identity?

False memories

What is the Ego Theory?

Ego theory states that A 'person' is the same over time because of a particular ego or subject of experience and that A 'person' is defined as a subject of experiences.

TRUE OR FALSE..... The Bundle Theory suggests we are just a bundle of our thoughts, ideas, memories, and sensations.

True

TRUE OR FALSE...... The Persistence question asks 'what makes a person persist over time.

True

TRUE OR FALSE.... Split-brain patients are individuals who have had surgery and now live with a separation in their brain resulting in two streams of consciousness or thoughts in one brain.

True

Derek Parfit thinks that split-brain cases:

Suggest that the Ego Theory of the self is wrong

Who would be the best person to ask whether there is free will in the world of Minority Report, according to Intentionalism?

Steven Spielberg

TRUE OR FALSE...... In Hard Determinism only one future is possible so we do NOT have free will.

True.

TRUE OR FALSE..... In Libertarianism, we don't have free will.

False...In Libertarianism we DO have free will!