Parfit says that his most important claim is that “personal identity is not what matters” and that it is continuity plus connectedness that matters in survival. The argument follows that in fission one would have what matters at least twice but one would be identical with no one living afterwards in anticipating a fission one’s current stage will not be copersonal with any post-fission stages. Identity is not what matters in survival; there is a significant shift in Parfit’s assumption about the relation between survival and personal identity. Both continuity and connectedness are necessary for survival, and it is the inclusion that connectedness that makes survival a “matter o degree” also introducing the notion of a “future self” and this idea can be linked to
Parfit says that his most important claim is that “personal identity is not what matters” and that it is continuity plus connectedness that matters in survival. The argument follows that in fission one would have what matters at least twice but one would be identical with no one living afterwards in anticipating a fission one’s current stage will not be copersonal with any post-fission stages. Identity is not what matters in survival; there is a significant shift in Parfit’s assumption about the relation between survival and personal identity. Both continuity and connectedness are necessary for survival, and it is the inclusion that connectedness that makes survival a “matter o degree” also introducing the notion of a “future self” and this idea can be linked to