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Testing a Theory of Identity

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Testing a theory of personal identity: extracting its criterion, running it through a scenario, and stress-testing with duplication.

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The candidate: psychological continuity theory.

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Run the clean scenario before the malfunction—a theory never tested on its best case has not been tested fairly either.