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    It is not the case that If personal identity is constituted by, rather than merely correlated with, such continuity relations, bodily annihilation dissolves the very relations that constitute the person.

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    • 1.Continuity relations might be necessary but not sufficient for personal identity; some further fact might constitute personhood.
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    • 2.Mental or informational patterns could theoretically be reconstituted even after bodily annihilation, preserving identity.
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    • 3.The claim conflates the dissolution of continuity *relations* with the dissolution of the *person* they constitute.
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    • 1.Personal identity consists in spatiotemporal and psychological continuity relations, not in some further metaphysical fact.
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    • 2.Bodily annihilation severs all causal chains linking past mental states to future ones, eliminating continuity relations.
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    • 3.If the constituting relations cease to exist, the entity constituted by them cannot persist beyond that cessation.
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