*What if you are not just yourself, but every conscious being that has ever existed?* Arnold Zuboff defends universalism: the startling view that one subject of experience underlies all conscious beings. Drawing on probability, thought experiments, and the immediacy of first-person experience, he argues that the boundaries between “me” and “others” are an illusion.
0:00 Universalism and Personal Identity
1:10 The Immediacy of First-Person Experience
2:35 From My Experience to All Experience
5:12 The Joke of the Bald Academic
8:04 Reversing the Usual View of Identity
12:09 Conceptual Arguments for Universalism
15:48 Induction, Probability, and Empirical Discovery
22:02 Why Your Existence Is Improbable
26:45 Further Considerations and Unification
33:17 Sleeping Beauty and This Experience
39:47 The Intergalactic Philosopher and Type vs Token
*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.
Arnold Zuboff’s _Finding Myself: Beyond the False Boundaries of Personal Identity:_ https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/BVDB.nsf/item?openform&product=publications&item=zuboff
Landscape of Consciousness entry, “Zuboff’s Universalism”: https://loc.closertotruth.com/theory/zuboff-s-universalism
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