The Psychological Continuity Theory And Personal Identity

Personal Identity is a very debatable subject. How do you know you are you, even growing up are you still the same person you were at age 5. I believe in the psychological continuity theory the survival of the psychology makes the person them. There is the opposing argument called the duplication argument, this argument says it “Relies on the transitivity of identity: If A is numerically identical to B and B is numerically identical to C, then A is numerically identical to C.” But your psychology is impossible to be duplicated there can only be one you at one place at a time no one can have your exact memories. To me I believe the argument against the psychological continuity theory fails. This debate is important to me because the thought …show more content…
I like to define it by you survive if your mind survives because your psychology is inside your brain unless removed. This is such your brain that holds all your thoughts,memories, and character are inside your brain, even if your original body is no longer working and the brain put in a body that’s not yours. This is because the brain holds what I believe the psychology that make you the person you are. Such as the example in the book with Julia North was hit by a car while saving a child. Her body was badly damaged but her brain was perfectly okay. Then Mary Frances Beaudine, had a stroke and her body being perfectly fine only her brain was heavily damaged. Well a doctor in California transferred Julia’s brain into Mary’s body. The outcome came to Julia being conscious and no more …show more content…
You are the same you just learning and experiencing new things everyday. When you start throwing in silly conditions like the duplicate argument is when it is questioned, but the duplicate theory is nearly impossible there can’t be two you’s at a time the argument can not be true. Even if you are duplicated the duplicate will start to wonder of different things and go through different experiences so he will be going down a new path and you are no longer numerically duplicates. That 's why the replies to the argument seem very flimsy as well. It 's hard to go against things that is to great of a thing that is nearly impossible. The psychological continuity theory can be shown how the psychology follows a person beliefs, memories, preferences, character traits, capacity for rational thought even put in another body possibly even a non-living thing like a