*What makes an experience yours?* Arnold Zuboff argues that universalism is neutral toward materialism, dualism, Buddhism, Humean bundle theory, panpsychism, and idealism — because only first-person immediacy makes experience “mine.”
0:00 Universalism and Theories of the Self
1:27 Universalism and Physicalism
5:29 The Electronic Corpus Callosum
9:06 Separate Experiences and One Subject
13:16 Parfit and Psychological Continuity
17:35 Buddhism and the No-Self View
22:21 Hume and the Bundle Theory
24:57 Substance Dualism and Souls
29:15 God, Souls, and the Hard Game
32:50 Panpsychism, Idealism, and Immediacy
*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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