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    Psychological-continuity views are incompatible with the ... — Carmelics
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    Psychological-continuity views are incompatible with the view that we are biological organisms.

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    • 1.Locke's distinction between 'man' and 'person' entails that biological and psychological persistence conditions track fundamentally different kinds.
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    • 2.If personal identity tracks psychological continuity while organismic identity tracks biological continuity, the same entity cannot satisfy both sets of persistence conditions.
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    • 3.Any view identifying persons with organisms must collapse Locke's distinction, yet this collapse generates systematic counterexamples in fission, transplant, and gradual replacement cases.
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    • 1.Parfit's reductionism demonstrates that what matters in survival is psychological continuity, which can obtain in degrees and branches independently of any single organism's persistence.
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    • 2.Biological organisms, as Snowdon and van Inwagen establish, persist through brute physical-causal continuity that neither admits of degrees nor permits branching in the relevant sense.
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    • 3.Because psychological continuity and organismic continuity diverge structurally—one admitting of branching and degrees, the other not—no single metaphysical kind can simultaneously obey both sets of persistence conditions.
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    • 1.Psychological continuity is neither necessary nor sufficient for a human organism to persist.
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    • 2.Human organisms have brute-physical persistence conditions.
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    • 3.On any psychological-continuity view, a person goes with their transplanted brain.
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    Another objection to psychological-continuity views is that they rule out our being biological organisms (Carter 1989, Ayers 1990: 278–292, Snowdon 1990, Olson 1997: 80f., 100–109, 2003a). This is because no sort of psychological continuity appears to be either necessary or sufficient for a human organism to persist. Human organisms have brute-physical persistence conditions. If your brain were transplanted, the one who ended up with that organ would be uniquely psychologically continuous with y
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