If character change were sufficient to break personal identity, survivors of religious conversion or severe depression would constitute different persons, which is counterintuitive.

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Counterintuitive(describes the strange result that the statement's logic produces): A conclusion that seems wrong or goes against what we'd normally expect, even if it might be logically correct.
Religious conversion(as an example of major character change): A significant change in someone's beliefs and spiritual identity, usually when they adopt a new religion or abandon one they previously followed.
Severe depression(as an example of major character change): A serious mental health condition where someone experiences prolonged sadness, hopelessness, and changes in how they think and act.
character(Semantic theory of indexical expressions; terminology due to Kaplan (1989)): A rule which determines the content of an expression given a context of utterance; formally, a function (or something that determines a function) from contexts to contents.

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