According to John Locke in “Of Identity and Diversity” being the same person has nothing to do with remaining the same substance. Instead, remaining the same person has only to do with consciousness and the continuous link of memory. Locke supports this claim with his idea of identity, which he defines by comparing something that exist in the present and the existence of that thing at an earlier time. This concept of identity arises from the principle that two things of the same kind cannot exist in the same place at the same time, thus, no two things can have the same beginning or can any thing have two beginnings. Three objections to this idea of personal identity are memory loss, circularity and transitivity of identity. When dealing with
