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    Supports→Personal identity over time consists in psychological continuity — being that future or past being from whom one inherits, or to whom one bequeaths, mental features such as beliefs, memories, preferences, and rational capacities.

    A past being is the same person as a present person if the present person has inherited its mental features from that past being.

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    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

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