Any view identifying persons with organisms must collapse Locke's distinction, yet this collapse generates systematic counterexamples in fission, transplant, and gradual replacement cases.
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Transplant cases(Another puzzle case challenging the organism view of personal identity)
Thought experiments where a brain or mind is moved from one body to another, used to ask whether the person follows their brain or stays with their original body.
counterexamples(as evidence used to challenge the justified true belief analysis)
Specific cases or scenarios that prove a general claim or definition wrong by showing an exception to the rule.
fission cases(as a philosophical puzzle about personal identity)
A thought experiment in philosophy where one person's brain or mind is split into two separate people, creating a puzzle about which one (if either) is the original 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