Sydney Shoemaker's causal requirement—that psychological connections must be causally sustained in the right way—fails to resolve fission cases because both Lefty and Righty satisfy the causal condition equally.

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Lefty and Righty(as the two people created in a fission scenario): The names given to the two resulting people in a fission thought experiment (often imagined as the left and right hemispheres of a split brain becoming two conscious individuals).
Psychological connections(as what grounds responsibility even without a unified person): Links between mental states and experiences, like remembering something you did or having beliefs and desires that span over time.
Sydney Shoemaker(identifying the originator of the theory being discussed): A 20th-century American philosopher who developed influential theories about the mind and how mental properties relate to physical properties in the brain.
causal requirement(logical relationship being discussed): A principle stating that something must have a cause, and there are specific rules about what kinds of causes can produce what kinds of effects.

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