
Christopher Shields on Personal Identity
Philosophy Bites
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The Lockean Approach to Memory
If memory is a necessary condition for person identity, then you can't be held responsible for what you genuinely have forgotten. It looks to me said Reed that if we have memories which are bona fide then obviously they're memories of your earlier self. So it looks like the lock in memory criterion both entails and denies that those are the same. But there's a fancier problem. Let's just imagine ourselves a little bit into the future where a cancer-ridden body can be duplicated perhaps grown from a clone. However you tell the story doesn't much matter. And the normal thought is that you can have a regenerated body and you leave behind the diseased body in favor of a new
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