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This 5 page report discusses
the “continuity of personal identity” and the ways by which such
a term may be defined and explained in the context of an
individual person’s development. It is essential to consider the
philosophical nature of the question “What makes you you?” and
move forward from that point. Life allows for both continuity and
discontinuity. Consider the example of a seed and a plant. Once
the seed becomes a plant, it is an entirely different entity but
does that mean it has no continuity of any kind with the former
seed and its body? These are the types of questions that also
apply to human beings. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
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and make the appropriate association between psychological continuity and personal identity, one must consider the philosophical nature of the question "What makes you you?" An approach based purely on physicalism
would assert that what makes a person the person they are is nothing more than the particular collection of atoms of which they are formed. However, such a statement
leaves no room for the changes every person experiences or the ways in which time changes people. This then leads to the conclusion that something non-physical must exist, although
this assertion does not follow logically in terms of their personal experiences. In the actual experience of an individual, he or she feels as if they remain the same continuous
person from one moment to the next. Human life allows for both continuity and discontinuity. Consider the example of a seed and a plant. Once the seed becomes
a plant, it is an entirely different entity but does that mean it has no continuity of any kind with the former seed and its body? Of course not.
Does Paul say the seed gets a "numerically new" body? Yes! Is it a numerically new body in every way, something that they never
had before in any sense, having No! The inner man possesses "eternal life" or immortality out of which the new body arises. The basis for the continuity is not
the physical body. The seed and plant each have a body (or body form) which is suited to their particular mode of existence and function. There is continuity of personal
identity and inner germ substance between the seed and plant, but discontinuity of bodily form. Continuity of life/person/identity, and discontinuity of outer form or body. But the plant definitely has
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