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    It is not the case that Animalists like Olson argue we are fundamentally human organisms, so personal identity must track the persistence conditions of biological entities, not mental states.

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    • 1.Intuition strongly suggests a person could survive with a different body but same mind; animalism cannot accommodate this possibility.
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    • 2.Brain-transplant thought experiments suggest we follow our psychology, not our original organism, revealing mental criteria's explanatory power.
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    • 3.Animalism makes personal identity criteria no different from animal identity criteria, yet persons seem to have special metaphysical properties organisms lack.
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    • 1.We are fundamentally biological entities; our existence depends on continuous organism functioning, not metaphysical continuity of consciousness.
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    • 2.Mental continuity criteria face the transplant problem: if my brain were transplanted, the organism criterion better explains personal identity.
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    • 3.Biological persistence is objective and verifiable; psychological criteria rely on contested theories of memory and psychological connectedness.
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