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novapsycheStaying Alive: The Personal Identity Game
From their webpage:
Objective: The aim of the game is to stay alive!
How to play: There are three rounds. In each round, you will be presented with a scenario and then offered two choices. The decisions that you make determine whether you stay alive or perish. You should always base your decisions on nothing more than the desire to keep yourself in existence. Also, note that you should take each scenario presented to you at face value. The situation will be as described - there are no "tricks" - and you do not need to worry about other 'what ifs'.
At the end of the game you will discover if you have stayed alive or not, although, being a philosophical game, the answer won't be that straightforward...
Your choices are consistent with the view that the continuity of the soul is essential for personal survival. [Two of your choices] showed a desire to keep your physical body alive. Yet [one of your choices] showed a willingness to jettison this physical body in order to save your soul. So presumably, you only valued the continued existence of your body because you thought it housed the soul.
However, some would find your choices problematic. First, why does the soul seem to require an attachment to the body rather than to psychological continuity? After all, the body is ultimately dispensable. Second, the soul seems rather an empty self. It is a self that needs no thoughts, beliefs or memories to exist. It is rather a kind of immaterial home for thoughts, emotions, beliefs and so on. Do you really think the self is such a thing?
1995 out of 11602 people chose the same path through the scenarios as you.
From their webpage:
Objective: The aim of the game is to stay alive!
How to play: There are three rounds. In each round, you will be presented with a scenario and then offered two choices. The decisions that you make determine whether you stay alive or perish. You should always base your decisions on nothing more than the desire to keep yourself in existence. Also, note that you should take each scenario presented to you at face value. The situation will be as described - there are no "tricks" - and you do not need to worry about other 'what ifs'.
At the end of the game you will discover if you have stayed alive or not, although, being a philosophical game, the answer won't be that straightforward...
Your choices are consistent with the view that the continuity of the soul is essential for personal survival. [Two of your choices] showed a desire to keep your physical body alive. Yet [one of your choices] showed a willingness to jettison this physical body in order to save your soul. So presumably, you only valued the continued existence of your body because you thought it housed the soul.
However, some would find your choices problematic. First, why does the soul seem to require an attachment to the body rather than to psychological continuity? After all, the body is ultimately dispensable. Second, the soul seems rather an empty self. It is a self that needs no thoughts, beliefs or memories to exist. It is rather a kind of immaterial home for thoughts, emotions, beliefs and so on. Do you really think the self is such a thing?
1995 out of 11602 people chose the same path through the scenarios as you.
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Date: 2003-09-28 01:44 pm (UTC)