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    A being who experienced different events could share suff... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A person who experienced different events would not be the same individual (Adam) but a numerically distinct person (another Adam).

    A being who experienced different events could share sufficient psychological continuity with Adam to constitute the very same person on this criterion.

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    • 1.Personal identity consists in psychological continuity (memory, personality, values), not in experiencing identical events.
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    • 2.Two people can share the same beliefs, desires, and character traits despite different life experiences, making them psychologically similar.
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    • 3.If what matters for survival is preserving one's psychological essence, event-differences are irrelevant to personal identity.
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    • 1.Psychological continuity requires causal connections between earlier and later mental states; different events break this causal chain.
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    • 2.Sufficient psychological similarity alone cannot constitute identity—two distinct people could share identical psychology without being one person.
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    • 3.Events shape psychology through lived experience; someone with Adam's psychology must have undergone similar formative experiences.
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