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    Categorical desires can be fulfilled posthumously through... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Categorical desires give a person reason to live.

    Categorical desires can be fulfilled posthumously through prior arrangements, making survival instrumentally unnecessary for their satisfaction.

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    • 1.Desire satisfaction requires only that desired outcomes occur, not that the desirer experiences them occurring.
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    • 2.People routinely fulfill others' posthumous wishes through wills and trusts, suggesting desires can be satisfied after death.
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    • 3.If what matters is the desire's fulfillment, not consciousness of it, then death doesn't prevent categorical desire satisfaction.
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    • 1.Categorical desires are defined by their intrinsic importance to one's life projects; posthumous outcomes can't sustain this meaning.
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    • 2.Without the subject's continued existence to validate arrangements, prior instructions become merely executed commands, not satisfied desires.
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    • 3.The non-identity problem: a deceased person cannot benefit from posthumous events since they lack the continuity to be benefited.
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