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Personal Identity
“Your body, memories, and character change. What makes you the same person?”
01 / SUMMARY
In short
The philosophy of personal identity studies the conditions under which a person persists through time. Accounts invoke bodily, psychological, biological, or narrative continuity, among others.
03 / SCENE
In the wild
A thought experiment that copies all your memories forces a distinction between continuity and duplication.
04 / LIMIT
The limit
It is not mainly about identification papers, social personality, or staying faithful to a fixed self-image.
FINAL NOTE
What remains
Whenever you say “the same person,” name the continuity you consider decisive and why.