Should the Number of Overlapping Experiencers Count?
According to the cohabitation account, all the persons that result from a fission event cohabit the same body prior to fission. This article concerns a problem for this account. Suppose Manuel and Jimena are suffering from an equally painful migraine. Unlike Jimena, however, Manuel will undergo fiss...
| Publicado en: | Erkenntnis Vol. 88; no. 4; pp. 1767 - 1790 |
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