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    It is not the case that Biological continuity of vital processes is not sufficient for identity persistence; what matters is psychological or narrative continuity (Parfit, Locke).

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    • 1.Psychological continuity is too permissive: it allows multiple future beings to equally continue you (the fission problem).
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    • 2.Memory and narrative are malleable, reconstructed, and unreliable; biology provides the only objective, causally-grounded criterion.
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    • 3.If only psychology matters, identical twins with identical minds are the same person—an absurd result that reveals the view's inadequacy.
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    • 1.Personal identity is fundamentally about what matters to us subjectively: continuity of memories, beliefs, desires, and life narrative.
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    • 2.Biological continuity alone permits identity with someone whose psychology is completely replaced (via total amnesia or brain alteration).
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    • 3.Intuitive thought experiments (teleportation, fission, gradual neuron replacement) show we track psychological chains, not physical continuity.
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