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    It is not the case that The first-person perspective must somehow be transferred from the original body to the resurrection body.

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    • 1.Personal identity consists in continuity of psychological connections (memories, intentions, beliefs), not in an irreducible first-person perspective.
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    • 2.Parfit's reductionist account shows that what matters in survival is psychological connectedness, which admits of degrees and requires no metaphysical 'transfer' of perspective.
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    • 3.If psychological continuity suffices for personal identity, resurrection requires only causal-psychological continuity between bodies, not transmission of a sui generis first-person entity.
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    • 1.The concept of a 'first-person perspective' being transferred presupposes substance dualism, yet Aristotelian-Thomistic hylomorphism treats the soul as form of the body, not a separable perspective-bearer.
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    • 2.On hylomorphic anthropology, God's resurrection of the person requires reconstituting the same matter-form composite, making 'transfer' a category error rather than a genuine requirement.
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    • 1.If a person's first-person perspective were extinguished, the person would go out of existence.
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    • 2.What is distinctive of persons is a 'first-person perspective', roughly, the capacity to think of oneself as oneself.
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