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    It is not the case that If the persistence conditions of the underlying substance (the animal) differ from the conditions of personhood, then what persists and what makes something the same person come apart.

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    • 1.Psychological continuity depends on the animal's brain; they don't truly come apart but rather the animal's persistence conditions *include* psychological continuity.
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    • 2.The claim conflates our criteria for *identifying* persistence with what *constitutes* it; different epistemic criteria needn't entail metaphysical divergence.
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    • 3.A single substance can have multiple, nested persistence conditions (e.g., a river persists by flow continuity AND organizational continuity) without coming apart.
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    • 1.Animals persist through physical continuity of matter and biological processes, but persons persist through psychological continuity of memory and identity.
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    • 2.A human can survive brain transplant (following psychology) while the original animal body ceases to exist, showing persistence conditions genuinely diverge.
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    • 3.If two conditions can come apart in conceivable scenarios, they cannot both be constitutive of the same underlying unity, so they must track different entities.
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