A future being is the same person as a present person if that future being inherits its mental features (beliefs, memories, preferences, rational capacities) from the present person.
personal identity(Philosophy of personal identity)
The relation of sameness holding between a person existing at one time and something existing at another time, analyzed here in terms of psychological continuity
Four main sorts of answers to the persistence question have been proposed. The most popular are psychological-continuity views. They say that our persistence consists in some psychological relation. You are that future being that in some sense inherits its mental features from you—beliefs, memories, preferences, the capacity for rational thought, and so on—and you are that past being whose mental features you have inherited in this way. There is dispute over what sort of inheritance this has to