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    Any view identifying persons with organisms must collapse... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Psychological-continuity views are incompatible with the view that we are biological organisms.

    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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    Key Terms

    Collapse (in philosophy)(metaphysics and logic)
    When distinct categories or theories merge together into one, losing their separate status.
    Gradual replacement cases(A third type of puzzle case that challenges the organism view)
    Thought experiments where parts of your body or brain are slowly replaced one at a time (like replacing cells), raising the question of when you stop being you.
    John Locke(as a later developer of abstraction theory)
    An English philosopher (1632-1704) who argued that the human mind starts as a blank slate and learns everything through experience and sensory observation rather than being born with built-in knowledge.
    Locke's distinction(This is the central contrast the statement is discussing)
    Locke's key idea that a person is NOT the same thing as their body—you could theoretically have a different body but still be you if your memories and consciousness stayed the same.

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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

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