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Personal Identity in… Sh. Vahidi Mehrajardi et al (59
two individuals would be brain, which are influenced
distinct and not identical. by nourishment. However, we
Their personalities, identities, can be certain that the identity
emotions, and beliefs would of an individual remains
diverge. Hence, they are constant, and this can be
unequivocally separate entities. attributed to the soul, which
Despite creating an identical remains alive, unchangeable,
human being using the same and immortal in the presence
materials, it is still impossible of God.
to consider them as being the This approach can solve
same. This is because every other relative questions like:
entity consists of two How do we find out who is
components: material and who? What evidence bears on
form; While the material the question of whether the
possesses potentiality, it is the person here now is the one
form that ultimately determines who was here yesterday?
the nature of the entity. The Numerous endeavors have
form activates the material, been made in Western
and merely repeating the philosophy to address these
same form with the same inquiries. One approach suggests
material is insufficient to that the persistence of a
prove equality. Consequently, person can be resolved
the belief is that the soul must through first-person memory.
persist and return to the body According to this viewpoint,
to maintain the same identity if an individual remembers
as an individual. performing a specific action
The evidence supporting or appears to remember, and
this notion lies in the fact that there is evidence that
all cells within the body someone did it, this provides
change throughout one's lifetime, support for the claim that the
including the cells in the
