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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 5. Self as Associations
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Personal identity is just causally related mental states [Parfit, by Maslin]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / a. Memory is Self
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Memory doesn't make identity; a man who relearned everything would still be the same man [Leibniz]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / b. Self as mental continuity
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We know our own identity by psychological continuity, even if there are some gaps [Leibniz]
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One of my future selves will not necessarily be me [Parfit]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 4. Split Consciousness
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If we split like amoeba, we would be two people, neither of them being us [Parfit]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 5. Concerns of the Self
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Concern for our own lives isn't the source of belief in identity, it is the result of it [Parfit]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 7. Compatibilism
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The will determines action, by what is seen as good, but it does not necessitate it [Leibniz]
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