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The Body Theory

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The body theory: personal identity consists in the persistence of one living human body—same body, same person.

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It matches daily practice: passports, fingerprints, and photographs all track persons by tracking bodies.

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The ship of Theseus already looms: your body replaces its matter continually and survives anyway—or does it?