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The Prince and the Cobbler

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Locke's prince and cobbler: imagine the prince's memories and character waking in the cobbler's body—intuition says the prince now lives there. Bodies seem to lose.

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Every body-swap story since runs on the same intuition: we follow the mind, not the meat.