John Locke believes that personal identity across time involves and relies on identity of consciousness. Locke’s view explains the continuation of consciousness across all personal states, such as living or dreaming, while also managing to persist across time. In his examination of personal identity, Locke analyzes the close connection between consciousness and the concept of a person. He judges that two or more substances may be considered to be the same person if they share and partake in an identical, same consciousness. It is not true, according to Locke, that personal identity across time is reliant on the identity of the substance of a mind, soul or body. The same consciousness may extend between many bodies of various substances and
