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    It is not the case that Personal identity must consist of something other than a physical or mental item

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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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    Reasons Against

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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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