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    If ordinary survival through sleep or unconsciousness tol... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The central logical problem for materialist versions of the resurrection is personal identity.

    If ordinary survival through sleep or unconsciousness tolerates spatio-temporal gaps in physical continuity, resurrection gaps differ only in degree, not kind.

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    • 1.Physical continuity during sleep is already interrupted; neural patterns dissolve and reform, yet we accept identity persistence.
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    • 2.If identity survives the dissolution of current physical states nightly, the mechanism enabling this could theoretically operate across longer gaps.
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    • 3.Personal identity may depend on psychological continuity (memories, character) rather than unbroken physical presence, making gap duration irrelevant.
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    • 1.Sleep maintains causal continuity through continuous biological processes; resurrection gaps involve complete cessation of all physical activity.
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    • 2.The brain's information substrate persists during sleep but is destroyed in death, making resurrection require information recovery from external sources.
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    • 3.Degree matters: tiny temporal gaps may preserve necessary overlap for identity, while large gaps create epistemic problems about which future person is 'you.'
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