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    Qualitative continuity of memory, personality, and ration... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Dualist accounts of survival fail.

    Qualitative continuity of memory, personality, and rational agency can ground personal identity without requiring bodily re-identification.

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    • 1.Personal identity fundamentally concerns psychological continuity—what makes me *me* is my memories, values, and reasoning, not physical substrate.
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    • 2.We intuitively accept identity across radical physical change: same person before/after accident, aging, or organ transplant if psychology persists.
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    • 3.Body-requirement theories face the circularity problem: why does the body matter except that it preserves psychology? This makes body derivative, not fundamental.
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    • 1.Memory and personality are realized *in* and *depend on* specific physical continuity. Copying psychological states doesn't preserve identity, only creates duplicates.
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    • 2.Qualitative psychological continuity is too permissive: gradual replacement of all memories/traits still wouldn't preserve *my* identity if substrate changes radically.
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    • 3.The claim conflates what matters *for identity* with what constitutes identity. Psychological continuity may matter morally without being metaphysically sufficient.
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