Ego Theory vs Bundle Theory

Ego Theory vs Bundle TheoryDerek Parfit discusses two separate theories of individualal identity, the Ego hypothesis and the Bundle theory. The common question between these two theories is What is a person? In this paper, I pull up stakes introduce the Ego Theory and the Bundle Theory, therefore I will go over Parfits teletransportation example. I will explain what Parfit and the Ego Theorist disagree about when it comes to teletransportation. Then I will reason in order to defend the Ego Theory and explain why I feel it is more persuasive.To begin with, I will discuss the understructure of the Ego Theory. This theory defines a person as a single unified subject of experiences.In other words, this theory believes there is something in this mankind that is you and that thing is basic. Mental events exist (such as memories, sensations, emotions, desires, experiences, etc.) but ar non basic. The basis of what makes up a person is something other than those cordial events. Thi s theory states that a persons continual life is described through the purpose of a specific subject of experiences, a person is an ego (unit basic quality) that a bunch of experiences extend to.On the other hand, the Bundle Theory is very polar, it believes that we are not a finicky subject of experiences, but a bundle. The foundation of this theory is that mental events exist but they are basic. A Bundle theorist believes there is no unit that is a person that exists in the world.A person is save a bundle or collection of mental events. These bundle of ideas are attached to a person. We organize our notions about what is in the world by categorizing different things ad giving them a label. People decided to call the idea of what makes up a person a person. We give notions their meaning using language. This is pitying beings basic way of organizing and defining things in the world depending on their relation, but it is our creation. Parfit agrees with the Bundle Theory and goe s on to argue thatwe incur defined what a person is incorrectly.Parfit goes on to discuss a scenario that involves teletransportation. He discusses a device called the teletransporter, which can read the design of a persons material while destroying it, then transfer the instruction to Mars at the speed of light. The receiver reads this information creating an exact copy of your material there. Parfit argues that you will die during this process, however you will have a reverberation of yourself who will pick up where you left off with your life. The replica will be someone who will be exactly similar to you, but it will not actually be you. It will have all your attributes such as your look, personality, memories, etc. This occurrence raises questions regarding whether the replica would be the same person as you, and hence what truly makes a person what they are.Both the Ego and Bundle theories agree that you will die during this process of teletransportation and that the replic a created will not be you. They disagree why the replica will not be the same person. The Ego theory believes the replica created on Mars is not you because it is full a copy of you. No one who will exist in the future would have my ego, no one in the future will be this particular subject of experiences. In other words, no one in the future will ever be me. A replica by definition is not the same as you, its a reproduction of you. Destroying the person teletransported does not somehow make the replica of that person the same. What makes a person is their ego. A person that believes in the Ego theory would be crazy for getting in a teletransporter because it would destroy them.On the other hand, the reason the Bundle theory believes the replica created on Mars is not the same as you is because it argues there is no self, there is no such thing as a person being teletransported. at that place are only ideas and when your collection of ideas is teleported, your collection of ideas w ill disappear and a new set of ideas will appear. The replica created will have the experience of lettered what the person teletransported is like, what memories they have experienced, what emotions they process, etc. but it is not the same as actually experiencing those things. The person teletransported has memories because that person created them in a specific way. Making a replica of those memories will still not be the same as actually having those memories personally. So a person that believes in the Bundle theory would have no problem getting in the teletransporter as opposed to the Ego theory.Parfit then goes on to assert, Ordinary survival is about as bad as being destroyed and having a Replica.What Parfit is trying to say is that teletransportation is just as bad as ordinary survival. If we believe in the Ego Theory we are worried about nonsense, because the way we perceive what defines a person is incorrect. He believes wedo not understand what we are and that our conti nued cosmos should not unfeignedly matter to us. Once we understand that we are just a bundle of ideas, it should not matter whether that bundle of ideas lives or dies.In my opinion the Ego theorys farm animal of reasoning is much more persuasive. I believe there is something special that makes each and every person different, which we call the soul. Ourconsciousness is the indicator there exists a soul. We are rational beings that have a conscience which tells us right from wrong.Also, there is something that is the foundation of a person that existed before we were born and that carries on subsequently we die. We can decide whether we want to behave or act in a certain way, hence we have free will. All those things were in existence before we were born, they are installed in our genetic makeup.I believe that in order for something to exist, something else must have caused it. Our genetic make up did not just appear out of nowhere, we were created by an external force. I believ e that the soul is the basis for that existence.The soul is beyond the range of the senses of the ego, but is a part of the ego.