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    It is not the case that Parfit's reductionist account shows that what matters in survival is psychological connectedness, which admits of degrees and requires no metaphysical 'transfer' of perspective.

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    • 1.Gradual loss of psychological connectedness (normal aging) doesn't diminish our conviction that the same person survives; degrees seem orthogonal to identity.
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    • 2.Two beings could share identical psychological content yet we'd deny one *is* the other, suggesting connectedness is necessary but insufficient for survival.
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    • 3.Reductionism struggles with the 'duplication problem': if psychology matters, a perfect copy shares it equally with the original, yet isn't obviously 'me'.
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    • 1.Psychological continuity (memory, personality, values) is what we actually care about preserving in survival scenarios, not metaphysical identity.
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    • 2.The degree-based account explains why we care less about distant future selves and more about near-future selves via diminishing psychological connections.
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    • 3.No coherent notion of 'perspective transfer' exists; reductionism avoids positing mysterious non-physical mechanisms unnecessary to explain our intuitions.
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