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    It is not the case that It is difficult to argue that it is known that the annihilation of the body entails the annihilation of the person.

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    • 1.All empirically confirmed instances of consciousness, memory, and personal identity are causally dependent on specific neural configurations.
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    • 2.When the physical substrate that causally sustains a phenomenon is destroyed, the burden of proof lies with those who claim the phenomenon persists.
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    • 3.Apparent coherence of dualist conceivability arguments does not constitute epistemic justification sufficient to override overwhelming empirical correlation.
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    • 1.Parfit's reductionist account establishes that personal identity just is the holding of certain physical and psychological continuity relations.
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    • 2.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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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Dualism in which the person and her body are contingently related is at least apparently coherent.
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    • 2.If the person and her body are only contingently related, the destruction of the body does not necessarily entail the destruction of the person.
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