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    On reductionism, there is no principled barrier preventin... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The thought experiment might provide a way in which a human organism could have come into existence far earlier than she did, but it does not provide a way in which a person could have come into existence far earlier.

    On reductionism, there is no principled barrier preventing earlier psychological chains from constituting the same person, contra Kaufman's modal claim.

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    • 1.Reductionism denies that personal identity requires metaphysically primitive facts beyond physical/psychological continuity.
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    • 2.If identity consists only in overlapping psychological chains, earlier chains can qualify if they share sufficient continuity.
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    • 3.Kaufman's modal barrier assumes non-reductive facts that reductionism rejects, so reductionists have no grounds to accept it.
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    • 1.Psychological chain overlap across persons (memory-sharing, trait inheritance) shows reductionist criteria admit unwanted identities.
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    • 2.Even reductionists must distinguish actual psychological constitution from mere continuity to avoid counterintuitive collapsing of persons.
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    • 3.Temporal direction and causal-historical context matter for identity even on reductionism, providing principled barriers Kaufman needs.
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