Identity - 6 : Persistence

What does it take for a person to persist from one time to another—that is, for the same person to exist at different times?

What sorts of adventures could you possibly survive, in the broadest sense of the word 'possible'?

What sort of event would necessarily bring your existence to an end?

What determines which past or future being is you?

Suppose you point to a child in an old class photograph and say, “That's me.”

What makes you that one, rather than one of the others?

What is it about the way she relates then to you as you are now that makes her you?

For that matter, what makes it the case that anyone at all who existed back then is you?

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