How do we relate our pain? How can we tell our physicians and providers that we are suffering and to what degree we are suffering? Moreover, how can we describe it in a way that others can understand? This is a recurring problem in healthcare relationships and is perpetuated by deep rooted fears and stereotypes.

Are we just the sum of our malleable memories?

To gain a true appreciation for the African and African diaspora’s philosophical perspective, it is important to go beyond the modern, if not colonial, construction of African thought to see the richness of this perspective and the impact that it has had, and continues to have on human thought.

Imagine that there is a device that is capable of instantaneously making a perfect biological copy of whatever object passes through it, and that a certain individual named Tom enters the machine, generating Thom, an epistemic clone that shares the mental and sensory faculties of the original, in addition to all experiential and propositional information.