In the “Second Night” of Perry’s dialogue, Sam Miller takes another, more confident attempt in proving to his friend Gretchen Weirob that there’s even the slightest possibility of life after death. Sam begins by revaluating his idea of personal identity, and how it exists without bodily identity, meaning both are different. Sam then refines the Blue River analogy. He explains that one may see the river from two different areas, with different levels of pollution and hundreds of miles apart, yet they are still two parts to make the same river. Even though the water molecules are not the same ones seen at both parts, you are still seeing the same river because they are connected by stretches of water. Similarly, Miller suggest with personal identity,
