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    Dualist accounts of survival fail. — Carmelics
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    Dualist accounts of survival fail.

    Afterlife & Death
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    • 1.We have no criteria of identity for disembodied persons.
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    • 2.When we make judgments about the identity of persons we are not making judgments about the identity of souls.
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    • 3.We cannot make judgments about the identity of souls because souls are said to be imperceptible and non-spatial.
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    • 1.Qualitative continuity of memory, personality, and rational agency can ground personal identity without requiring bodily re-identification.
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    • 2.Locke's memory-based criterion demonstrates that identity tracking need not be anchored to a spatially continuous physical substrate.
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    • 3.A disembodied soul retaining first-person psychological continuity satisfies the same criteria we apply to persons across sleep, anesthesia, or radical bodily change.
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    • 1.The imperceptibility of souls to third-person observers does not entail that souls lack determinate identity, since mathematical objects and numbers are similarly imperceptible yet numerically distinct.
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    • 2.Swinburne's argument from haecceity holds that substances can bear primitive thisness grounding identity independently of any observable or spatial criterion.
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    At first, it seems obvious that dualism is a “survival-friendly” perspective. If we are nothing more than our bodies, it seems that if death destroys our bodies, we are destroyed and there is nothing left of us as persons—though parts of our bodies and the particles that make it up will be scattered and perhaps (temporarily) come to be part of the bodies of other living organisms. If, however, we are nonphysical (or immaterial) minds or souls or persons who are embodied, then even the complete annihilation of our physical bodies does not entail our annihilation as persons. In fact, one of seve...

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