Abstract:The paper distinguishes between five questions often discussed under the heading "personal identity." One of these questions is "What am I fundamentally?" The animalist answer to this question is "I am fundamentally a human being." According to this answer, each of us is fundamentally an entity, of which only one can exist in a single human body. In contrast, this paper argues for the following thesis (the coexistence thesis): each of us is fundamentally an entity, of which there could exist two or more in one… Show more
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