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    It is not the case that Dualist accounts of survival fail.

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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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    • 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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