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The body view of personal identity?
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You are your living body (or brain); you exist as long as it does.
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The mind / self view?
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You are your inner mental life — thoughts, memories, point of view. The body is its home.
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The body-swap thought experiment?
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Imagine your mind waking in a new body: did YOU move? Tests body vs mind views.
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One weakness of the body view?
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It must say you don't survive a body-swap, and your cells fully replace over time.
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One weakness of the mind view?
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It's unclear what a 'mind' is, and we forget large parts of our lives yet still survive.
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Why do these views matter?
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They answer 'what are we?' — the first identity question, before we ask what makes us persist.
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