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    It is not the case that Under reductionism, questions about identity under counterfactual causal origins are not uniquely problematic for persons, since the same indeterminacy afflicts all complex physical objects with branching histories.

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    • 1.Persons have first-person subjective continuity of consciousness; ships and statues lack this, making the indeterminacy genuinely different in kind.
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    • 2.We have practical identity criteria for persons (psychological continuity, memory) that may resolve counterfactual indeterminacy; inanimate objects lack these.
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    • 3.That a problem is general to physical objects doesn't show it's equally tractable for persons, whose identity stakes are metaphysically and morally distinct.
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    • 1.Reductionism treats identity as determined by physical composition; persons are physical objects, so indeterminacy afflicts both equally.
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    • 2.Complex objects like ships and statues face genuine identity puzzles under branching histories, showing the problem is general, not person-specific.
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    • 3.If persons had special metaphysical status, we'd need non-physical criteria for identity, contradicting reductionist commitments.
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