
Christopher Shields on Personal Identity
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The Importance of Being the Person We Are
We're not going to end up with a situation where one person like some kind of amoeba breaks down the middle and suddenly there are two. But we're not very far from the thought that we are integrating disparate hemispheres and different streams of awareness so I'm not myself disinclined to think such a thing could be in the offing. And in a way though I want to say something else suppose that you're right that it just is not going to happen doesn't matter in a way from the standpoint of thinking about how we make progress on these difficult issues of personal identity.
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