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    It is not the case that If there is no robust persisting self to bear active, forward-looking concerns, those concerns cannot be foundational to personal identity in the way the supporting argument assumes.

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    • 1.Identity can derive from narrative coherence and psychological continuity without requiring a metaphysical 'self'.
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    • 2.Forward-looking concerns are foundational precisely because they constitute personal identity through intentional structure, not presuppose it.
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    • 3.Even admitting the self is impermanent or conventionally constructed, concerns still effectively ground identity through their causal-functional role.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Personal identity requires a continuous subject that persists over time to ground identity relations.
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    • 2.Forward-looking concerns presuppose a unified agent who will experience future consequences of present choices.
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    • 3.Without a robust self, concerns become mere momentary mental states disconnected from biographical continuity.
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