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    It is not the case that Memory is not a sufficient condition for personal identity

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    • 1.Having an episodic memory of an event entails that one existed at the time of the remembered event
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    • 2.It is not the recollection or ability to recall that makes one identical with the person who was witness or agent to the event
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    • 3.One might have performed an action without remembering it, yet still be the person who performed it
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Memory is causally dependent on personal identity rather than constitutive of it, as Reid argued against Locke's circularity.
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    • 2.To remember that I performed an action presupposes that the 'I' who remembers is already identical to the agent, making memory explanatorily derivative.
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    • 3.If memory constituted identity, the logical priority would be reversed: we would need identity to ground the memory claim before memory could establish identity.
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    • 1.Shoemaker and Parfit's cases of fission demonstrate that two distinct persons can share overlapping memory chains, violating the one-one relation identity requires.
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    • 2.Where memory continuity branches into two psychologically continuous successors, identity cannot hold to both, yet memory-criterion proponents cannot principled exclude either.
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