Month: September 2019
Chapter 23 – Why The Good Place Must treat Personal Identity as a Substance
In Chapter 23, we find Chidi and later Eleanor questioning which version is their best self. The neighborhood has been rebooted 802 times. Each time, people’s memories were erased. Here is the problem. Are they the same person in each version? John Locke defines a person has a thinking thing […]
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Chapter 22 – Faith or Friendship
In Chapter 22, Sean returns to The Good Place to promote Michael due to the success of his experiment. The neighborhood is to be dismantled and the humans will be dissected and studied. Michael, with Sean observing, then tells them that they are really in The Bad Place. They all […]
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Chapter 21 – The Doctrine of Double Effect
In Chapter 21, Janet is in a relationship with Derek – the boyfriend she created to aid in getting over Jason. To prevent Vicky from finding out, Michael wants to kill Derek. When Chidi informs him that it is wrong, Michael suggests that they break Jason and Tahani up. If […]
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Chapter 20 – Janet and the Evolutionary Account of Freewill
In Chapter 20, Michael and Janet investigate the cause of Janet’s glitches. It turns out that the cause of the glitches is Janet providing information that is incompatible with objective truth. In other words, Janet is lying. Janet, however, points out that Janets cannot lie. However, after 802 reboots, Janet […]
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