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    Challenges→Personal identity over time is constituted by psychological continuity rather than memory alone

    Bodily and biological continuity grounds psychological continuity causally, making the psychological relation derivative rather than constitutive of personal identity.

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    • 1.Brain damage causally disrupts memory and personality while leaving the body intact, showing biology grounds psychology.
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    • 2.Identical twins share complete biological continuity yet develop distinct psychological traits, proving biology is foundational.
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    • 3.Psychological continuity can be illusory (confabulation), but biological continuity provides objective identity grounding.
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    • 1.A person undergoing complete amnesia loses psychological continuity but retains identity; psychology isn't constitutive but identity persists.
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    • 2.In transplant scenarios, our intuitions about identity follow psychology (memories, personality) not the biological container.
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    • 3.Causal grounding doesn't establish constitution; gravity grounds planetary motion but doesn't constitute it in identity terms.
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