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The Question of Personal Identity

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The question of personal identity: what makes a person at one time the same person as someone at another time—what does survival consist in?

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The reunion photo: nothing about you—cells, beliefs, memories, size—survives from age five. Something makes it your photo anyway.

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The question is metaphysical, not psychological—"finding yourself" is a different project.