Credits

Director: Laurence Fishburne

Producer: Martin Scorcese

Cast

Zoe Alexander Halle Berry or Lauryn Hill

Erin Hughes Cameron Diaz

Joe McCarthy self

Joe Carson self

J. Gordon Liddy self

Uma Thurman self

little Zoe ??

Mark Epstein Jack Nicholson (Woody Allen? Bill Murray??)

Mom Whitney Houston

Dad Samuel L. Jackson

1st squirrel self

2d squirrel self

etc. etc.

Larry King Charlie Rose

Charlie Rose Larry King

Marv Belzer self

Mark McGwire self

Sammy Sosa self

Dana Scully self

Fox Mulder self

Kelli Flynt self

Joseph Goldstein self

Dr. Laura Madonna

Madonna Courtney Love

Courtney Love Britney Spears

Britney Spears self

Louise Antony Thelma

Filmed on location.

Thank you to

NYC Parks Department

NYC Police

Washington State Parks Service

University of Washington Film Lab

etc.

PBS, CNN, etc.

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Special thanks to:

Albert, David and Barry Loewer. Many minds

Antony, Louise Philosopher Queens

Antony, Louise and .... eds., A Mind of One's Own

Barthes, Roland. A Lover's Discourse

Batchelor, ... Beyond belief

Belzer, Marvin. "Notes on Relation R," Analysis 56(1) (January, 1996): 56-62.

---. "The psychological criterion of personal identity," ms.

Bornstein, kate. Gender Outlaw

Boys, The Beastie. "Bodhisattva Vow," Ill Communication ..

Boys, The Backstreet. "Larger than life"

Brink, David. "Rational egoism and the separateness of persons," in Jonathan Dancy (ed.) Reading Parfit (Blackwells, 1997): 96-134.

---. "Self-love and altruism," Social Philosophy and Policy 14(1) (Winter, 1997): 122-157

Buddha, middle length discourses

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble

Carroll, Lewis, "What the Tortoise said to the Hare," Mind

Colson, Charles. .. Breakpoint Commentary ..

Churchland, Patricia. Neurophilosophy ...

Cure, The. "I Called you after midnight"

Dainton, Barry. "Time and division," Ratio 5(2) (December, 1992): 102-128.

Dalai Lama. Autobiography

Dancy, Jonathan, ed. Reading Parfit (Blackwells, 1997).

Danto, Arthur. TransX of the Ordinary

Ehringer, Douglas. Time travel article ..

Epstein, Mark. Going to Pieces without Falling Apart (Broadway Books, 1998).

--. Thoughts without a Thinker.

Eliot, T. S. "The Magi"

---. "Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Feldman, Fred. Doing the best we can.

Frazier, Ian. On the Rez

Frost, Robert. Two roads poem

--. wall poem

--. snow poem

Fulton, Alice. "A Poetry of Inconvenient Knowledge," The Nation (June 14, 1999)

Garfield, Jay. Nagarjuna book

Gaye, Marvin. What's Goin' On?

Gilmour, Douglas. Dissertation on Nietzsche.

Goldstein, Joseph. The Experience of Insight

---. Insight Meditation.

--- and Jack Kornfield. Book.

---. "How Amazing! -- interviewed by Amy Gross," Tricycle (Summer, 1999), pp. 30- 37.

Gould, Stephen Jay ... Book cited in Time article

---.time article too

Greider, William. Articles in The Nation

Grice, H. P. "Personal identity," reprinted in John Perry, ed. Personal Identity (University of California Press, 1975): 73-95.

Gruzalksi, Bart. On the Buddha.

Hand, Michael. "Personal identity is not transitive," ms.

Hart, H. L. A. The concept of Law.

Havel, Vaclav. Speech at Aachen. Reprinted in NY Rev Bks

Hill, Lauryn. Miseducation of

Hopkins, Gerard Manley. Christ plays.. poem

Ishiguru. The Remains of the Day

Johnston, Mark. In dancy ed

Jonnes, Jill. Recent book about drugs

Kant, Immanuel. Lectures on Ethics

--. also rep metaphysics

Kaufman, Walter. Trans. N's Genealogy

Khema, Ayya. Who is my self? (Wisdom Publications, 1997).

Khunu Rinpoche. Vast as the Heavens, Deep as the Sea: Verses in Praise of Bodhicitta (Wisdom Publications, 1999).

Kim, Jaegwon. Phil of mind

Kornfield, Jack. A Path with Heart

Kornfield, Jack (ed). Living Buddhist Masters

Krishnamurti, J. Meeting Life

-- Questioning Krishnamurti.interviews with iris Murdoch, David Bohm, others

Kristeller, Jean et. al. Articles on mindfulness meditation and psychotherapy

Laycock, Steven. Book..

Lewis, David. Time travel article

--. Article on personal identity

Liddy, J. Gordon. "To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing," in The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941), p. 124.

--. "The Role in Political Argument of Ideology and Utopia as Polar Expressions of the Cultural and Personal Imagination as Formulated in the Language and Possible Worlds Semamntics of the Modal Deontic Logic 3-D," unpublished ms.

--. "Is Joe Dense? A Case Study Analysis of Personal Identity," Personasophical Studies 4 (1998).

Lomasky, Loren. Persons, rights, and the moral community (Oxford, 1987).

---. Review of Parfit's book

McDowell, John. Article in Dancy, ed.

McMurtry, Larry. Review of Frazier's book

Makinson, David. "Individual actions are very seldom obligatory."

Martin, Raymond. Article re reincarnation and esp

--. Article about fission thought-experiments in 19th century.

--Other articles by Ray

Miller, Fred and Nicholas Smith (eds.) Thought Probes

Millgram, Elijah. "How to make something of yourself," ms.

Nabakov, ... Pale Fire ..

Nagel, Thomas. The possibility of altruism (Princeton, 1970).

Nehemas, Alexander. Book on Nietzsche (persona v. theoretical phil)

NY Times, "On Day Made for Legend, Cone Pitches Perfect Game" (July 19,1999), D7.

Nietzsche, Friedrich. On The Genealogy of Morals..

--. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

--. The Will to Power

Nozick, Robert. The Examined Life

--. Philosophical Explanations.

Pandita, U. In This Very Life.

Parfit, Derek. Reasons and Persons (Clarendon, 1984).

---. "Comments," Ethics 96(4) (July, 1986): 832-872.

---. "The unimportance of identity," in Henry Harris (ed.) Identity: Essays based on Herbert Spencer Lectures given in the University of Oxford (Clarendon, 1995): 13-45.

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--. Article in same book.

---. Personal Identity and Immortality (Hackett).

Phillips, Stephen. Classical Indian Metaphysics.

Price, A. F. And wong Mou-lam (trans.) The Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui-neng (Boston: Shambhala, 1990).

Prior, Arthur. ... Re transitivity ..

Salzberg, Sharon. Lovingkindness :the revolutionary art of happiness (Shambala, 1997).

Sellars, Wilfred. Phil science stuff

Shoemaker, Sydney and Richard Swinbure, Personal identity

Shoemaker, Sydney, numerous articles.

Siderits, Mark J Ind Phil and Rel

--. APQ article

Sobel, David. "Well-being..." article

Soeng, Mu. Heart Sutra (Cumberland, RI: Primary Point Press, 1991).

Sogyal Rinpoche. Tibetan Book of Living and Dying ..

Stevenson, Ian. Cases reminiscent of reincarnation.

Thanissaro Bhikkhu. The Mind Like Fire Unbound (Barre, Mass.: Dhamma Dena Publications, 1993).

Thomson, Judith. Article on psychological criterion

Thompson, William Irwin. The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light (St. Martin's, 1981).

Thurman, Robert. "Nondual meditation," ms.

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--. "Human beings are conditioned: an interview with J. Krishnamurti," in Titmuss (ed.) Freedom of the Spirit (London: Green Print, 1991), pp. 9-19.

--. "`Don't close off to pain': an interview with Dr. Joanna Macy," in Titmuss (ed.) Spirit for Change (London: Green Print, 1989), pp. 19-27.

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Varela, et. al. The Embodied Mind

Wheeler, Kate. When Mountains Walked.

Wilbur et. Al. Transformations of Consciousness

Wolf, Susan .. Ethics article

Yeats, William Butler. "A Prayer for My Daughter," The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941), pp. 216-218.

--. "For Anne Gregory," op. cit., p. 282.

--. "Cradle song," op. cit., p. 45

--. "The Fish," op. cit., pp. 64-65.

-- "Friends," op. cit., pp. 141-142

--. "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," op. cit., pp.44-45.

--. "The Second Coming," op. cit., pp. 215.

--. "When You are Old," op. cit., p 46.

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Wolf, Susan. "Self-interest and interest in selves," Ethics 96(4) (July, 1986): 704-720.

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Any resemblance of characters in this film to actual or fictional persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental, especially so when characters apparently happen to have the same names as actual or fictional persons.

No animals were harmed in filming this movie except for the two squirrels who got knocked unconscious after a collision in Central Park and exchanged sqersonal identities -- although we question, as our defense lawyers have questioned-- thank you, Larry Flynt!-- where precisely was the problem in that? (cannot discuss this further because of the litigation.)

Please, Rupert Murdoch, do not sue!! Please, please, please we have enough trouble already without you going after us like you're going after U. Wisconsin's "Why Files". Please, we beg you, we will change everything!!

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