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    It is not the case that Psychological continuity theories privilege narrative coherence over the moral status of present experiential subjects, conflating biographical identity with numerical identity.

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    • 1.Numerical identity (being the same person) requires some continuity criterion; psychology is the most plausible candidate available.
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    • 2.Moral status doesn't require narrative coherence, but biographical and numerical identity are distinct problems requiring different solutions.
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    • 3.The claim conflates criticisms of how we *use* narrative identity with a logical problem in the theory itself.
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    • 1.Narrative coherence is a constructed retrospective project that may obscure present suffering of psychological continuants.
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    • 2.A person with dementia losing autobiographical memory retains present moral status independent of narrative connection to their past self.
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    • 3.Privileging story-based identity over current experience risks treating present subjects as mere means to biographical coherence.
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