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persist; But being a person is mentioned memory: a past or
most often defined as having future being might be you if
special mental properties. and only if you can now
Locke, for instance, said: remember an experience she
A person is a thinking had then, or vice versa. This
intelligent being, that has proposal faces two objections,
reason and reflection and dating to Sergeant and
can consider itself as itself, Berkeley in the 18th century;
the same thinking thing, in (Ref: Behan, 1979) But more
different times and places. famously discussed by Reid
(Ref: Wiggins, 1976) and Butler.
Some believe that a past or Accounts of Our Persistence
future person is you just if Overall, four main sorts of
you who are now a person, answers to the persistence
can now remember an question have been proposed.
experience he had then, or he The most popular are
can then remember an psychological-continuity views.
experience you are having They say that our
now. Call this the memory persistence consists of some
criterion. It is sometimes psychological relation. You
attributed to Locke, though are that future being that in
it’s doubtful whether he held some sense inherits its mental
it. (Ref: Behan, 1979) features from you; beliefs,
Most Western philosophers memories, preferences, the
feel immediately drawn to capacity for rational thought,
psychological continuity views. and so on, and you are that
Nichols & Bruno (2010) give past being whose mental
experimental evidence for features you have inherited in
this. What psychological this way. There is dispute
relation might our persistence over what sort of inheritance
consist in? We have already this has to be, whether it must
