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AMA | September 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

CHAPTER

The New Alice Is the Same as the Old One, Right?

There is no such thing, metaphysically, as the unis of your identity that persists through time and follows you from one moment to another. So our knowledge or experience with moral accountability comes from actual people who do not die and then get reconstructed. And therefore, whatever ideas about accountability you would have had for the original Alice after she committed a crime, you should also have for her identical version later on.

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