What if the boundaries between persons are not ultimately real? Arnold Zuboff explores his theory of “universalism,” arguing that every conscious being may share the same underlying subject of experience — and that you and I could, in a profound sense, be the same person.
0:00 Universalism and Personhood
0:50 What Counts as a Person
3:06 Are We All the Same Person
4:49 Language and the Nature of Reality
*Arnold Zuboff* is an American philosopher known for his work on personal identity, consciousness, and probability. He took his PhD at Princeton in 2009 under Thomas Nagel and spent most of his academic career at University College London.
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