Personal identity
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In philosophy, personal identity refers to the essence of a self-conscious person, that which makes him or her uniquely what they are at any one point in time, and which further persists over time despite superficial modifications, making him or her same person at different points in time also.
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- Identity
- Abstract objects, Personal life, Self (philosophy), Identity and change, Mind/brain identity, Ship of Theseus (about identity of things generally, not only of persons)
- Continuity
- Mindstream, consciousness, dependent origination, introspect, mnemonic, percept, perdurantism, synchronicity, noumena
- People
- Gottlob Frege, Derek Parfit, Anthony Quinton, David Wiggins, Sydney Shoemaker, Bernard Williams, Peter van Inwagen, Carl Jung, Erik Erikson, Hugo Münsterberg, Wilhelm Wundt, Dogen (being and time)
- Other
- Metaphysical necessity, Personally identifiable information, Privacy, Cerebrum, Brainy, Hemispherectomy, immaterialism, personhood
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Identity
- Abstract object
- Nominal identity
- Open individualism
- Personal life
- Self-Schema
- Self (philosophy)
- Self-concept
- Identity and change
- Mind/brain identity
- Ship of Theseus
- Narrative identity
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Continuity
- Mindstream
- Consciousness
- Dependent origination
- Information-theoretic death
- Introspect
- Meme
- Mnemonic
- Percept
- Perdurantism
- Synchronicity
- Noumena
- Neuroplasticity (Spike-timing-dependent plasticity)
- Hebbian theory
- Dogen (being and time)
- process philosophy
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People
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Philip K. Dick
- Daniel Kolak
- Gottlob Frege
- Derek Parfit
- Anthony Quinton
- David Wiggins
- Sydney Shoemaker
- Bernard Williams
- Peter van Inwagen
- Carl Jung
- Erik Erikson
- Hugo Münsterberg
- Wilhelm Wundt
- Paul Ricœur
- James Marcia
- Mario Rodríguez Cobos
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Other
- Identity and language learning, Metaphysical necessity, Otium, Personally identifiable information, Personal life, Privacy, immaterialism, Personhood, Gender systems (Social construction of gender difference), The Persistence of Memory (short story), The Persistence of Memory, Transhumanism
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