#321 - Reckoning with Parfit
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The Importance of Psychological Continuity
Parfit thinks that the body itself is almost and irrelevant. If you cut off your nails, you're not changing your identity. And so at least in reasons and persons, he doesn't share your intuitions about that. He's very happy to be there on Mars, continuing psychologically from the person that existed on planet Earth. So where does he change his opinion about it? Well, later on, he becomes more sympathetic to what's called animalism,. But he never goes all the way. I think he comes to believe that psychological continuity has to sit within a kind of organism.
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