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    Personal identity must be grounded in an overall organiza... — Carmelics
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    Personal identity must be grounded in an overall organization or 'Sympathy of Parts' rather than in any particular material or mental constituent

    Personal Identity
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    • 1.A person remains one and the same self throughout life
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    • 2.No atom of body, no passion, and no thought remains the same throughout a person's life
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    • 3.Personal identity cannot consist of physical matter
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    • 1.Psychological continuity of memory chains, not organizational unity, constitutes personal identity (Locke, Essay II.xxvii).
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    • 2.A 'Sympathy of Parts' is a relational property that presupposes the very self it purports to explain, making the account circular.
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    • 1.Hume's bundle theory demonstrates that introspection reveals only discrete perceptions, never a unifying organizational principle underlying them.
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    • 2.If personal identity reduces to an overall organization, then gradual replacement of all constituents while preserving organization preserves identity, yielding the counterintuitive result that a ship of Theseus and a person share the same identity criterion.
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    In The Moralists, Shaftesbury contends that there is no physical or mental element that persists through a person’s entire life, yet it seems that one can remain the same self even amid all those changes. A person is a single thing, retaining an identity throughout the years. But that identity cannot consist of physical matter, as every particle of a person changes over time. The ‘Stuff … of which we are compos’d’, says Theocles, ‘wears out in seven, or, at the longest, in twice seven Years, [as
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