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PERSONAL IDENTITY AND EXISTENTIAL CONNECTEDNESS
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Personal Identity and Existential Connectedness |
| Author: |
David J Larkin |
| Abstract: |
Physical connectedness is a prerequisite for 'sameness' or the persistence of identity of a cognitive or non-cognitive entity; and physical connectedness is simply the existential connectedness (chronicle or narrative) of the disparate or changing physical profiles of the cognitive or non-cognitive entity under consideration.
Psychological connectedness may be similarly positioned depending upon the particular philosophical disposition or interpretation the reader assigns to 'mental states' or psyche. What is critical to the notion of identity is the existential connectedness of prior states to the current profile—cognitive or non-cognitive entity, physical or psychological profile.
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| Keywords: |
Personal Identity, Existential Connectedness |
| Created: |
April, 2003 |
| Last Updated: |
October, 2004
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Published Article: Personal Identity and Existential Connectedness
Related Discussion Paper: Identity, Determinism, and the Moral Consensus (PDF)
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