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    Personal identity must consist of something other than a ... — Carmelics
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    Personal identity must consist of something other than a physical or mental item

    Personal Identity
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    • 1.There is no single constant and invariable physical item that can fund personal identity
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    • 2.There is no single constant and invariable mental item that can fund personal identity
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    • 1.Psychological continuity—overlapping chains of memory, intention, and character—constitutes personal identity without requiring a single invariable mental item.
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    • 2.Locke's account and Parfit's reductionism show identity can be grounded in relations among mental states, not in any one constant substrate.
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    • 1.The absence of a single constant physical item does not entail that no physical basis exists, since identity can be grounded in continuous biological organization.
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    • 2.Eric Olson's animalist view holds that we are human organisms whose persistence conditions are biological, not metaphysically sui generis.
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    Hume was dismissive of Shaftesbury’s claims in The Moralists about the identity, writing ”If the reader is desirous to see how a great genius may be influenc’d by these seemingly trivial principles of the imagination ... let him read my Lord Shaftesbury’s reasonings concerning the uniting principle of the universe, and the identity of plants and animals [in] his Moralists, a Philosophical Rhapsody: (Hume 1739–40: 1.4.6.6). It seems, however, that Hume did learn something about personal identity
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