You will prepare and submit a term paper on PHILOSOPHY FINAL EXAM PAPER. Your paper should be a minimum of 2000 words in length.

You will prepare and submit a term paper on PHILOSOPHY FINAL EXAM PAPER. Your paper should be a minimum of 2000 words in length. One hand writes “red.” The other writes “blue”. The left brain is able to enunciate “I see red.” The verbal component is important, because Parfit’s definition of identity is that identity exists because we talk about it, we name it. So the split-brain, Parfit says, represents two streams of consciousness. Both hemispheres are conscious as long as they are intact. Parfit then says this dual consciousness equals two people in the same body. Then he says that in the sense that identity is a named collection of objects (memories, thoughts, emotions) there are no identities here, because the original person has been split in two. I believe that consciousness equals identity, but more on that later. Stairs posits the Ego Theory, where the existence of the ego explains the existence of the person. Parfit’s shallow definition of personal identity as a named collection of parts is put to the test. Stairs wants Parfit to look at the complexity of the collection: “we do make a distinction…between mere assemblages and things that have a coherence or unity…From the mere fact that a thing is compound, it simply does not follow that its existence as a thing is merely nominal” (Stairs).