It's interesting seeing this on HN, but I should warn people that (most) of these philosophy snippets are pretty tough to understand without proper context. For

It's interesting seeing this on HN, but I should warn people that (most) of these philosophy snippets are pretty tough to understand without proper context. For what it's worth, I've never been a fan of philosophy of mind, mainly because there's a lot of speculation and hand-waving. With that said, I most align with Strawson's view of personhood as a "logical primitive," as he described it in his seminal Persons (1959)[1] where it seems that a person is an inseparable "bundle" of things, including memories, dreams, aspirations, autonomy, physical features, and so on. In that sense, there is definitely some continuity between a 12-week old fetus and a grown adult. [1] http://www.hist-analytic.com/Strawsonpersons.pdf http://www.hist-analytic.com/Strawsonpersons.pdf