Week 6--Cobb Chapter 6: Human Nature

I liked Cobb’s use of Augustine to deal with memory and its relationship to identity. There is an interesting comparison with Barker’s chapter about space and place. Some consider Augustine’s ideas about the space of the soul to be foundational to modern epistemology. This raises the question, are we what we are because of what we know about ourselves and what we remember? Or are we something essential in spite of what we know?