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    It is not the case that On a Lockean view, psychological continuity answers question 2 (what makes me the same person), while the persistence of the organism answers question 1 (what makes this entity continue to exist).

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    • 1.Psychological continuity is too fragmented to ground identity; memory chains break and mental properties constantly change throughout life.
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    • 2.If personhood requires psychology but organism persistence requires only biology, they answer the same metaphysical question with contradictory criteria.
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    • 3.The view implies a brain transplant recipient becomes a different person, yet our intuitions and legal frameworks treat the original organism as the person.
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    • 1.Personal identity requires psychological continuity because what matters in survival is memory and mental continuity, not bare biological facts.
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    • 2.Organisms persist through metabolic and biological processes independent of consciousness, answering an ontological question distinct from personal identity.
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    • 3.Locke's framework avoids the problem of fission by grounding personhood in subjective continuity rather than body, which brain-splitting cases show is necessary.
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