Full Idea
Pace Parfit and others, it boggles the mind that survival could be independent of any relation of identity between the currently existing object and the objects that subsequently exist.
Gist of Idea
It seems absurd that there is no identity of any kind between two objects which involve survival
Source
Kit Fine (Vagueness: a global approach [2020], 3)
Book Reference
Fine,Kit: 'Vagueness: a global approach' [OUP 2020], p.65
A Reaction
Yes. If the self or mind just consists of a diachronic trail of memories such that the two ends of the trail have no connection at all, that isn't the kind of survival that any of us want. I want to live my life, not a life.