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    It is not the case that Eric Olson's animalist view holds that we are human organisms whose persistence conditions are biological, not metaphysically sui generis.

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    • 1.Personal identity seems conceptually tied to psychological continuity, not biological substrate; we care about minds, not mere organisms.
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    • 2.If I gradually replaced neurons with functionally identical silicon, animalism says I'd cease existing despite complete psychological continuity.
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    • 3.Animalism struggles with cases of radical brain transplant where our intuitions follow the brain, not the biological body.
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    • 1.We are spatiotemporal physical entities with clear biological identity conditions, so our persistence should follow biological criteria.
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    • 2.Psychological continuity theories create counterintuitive results like fission cases; biological criteria avoid these puzzles naturally.
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    • 3.Our fundamental dependence on continuous biological processes suggests biological persistence is metaphysically fundamental, not derivative.
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