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Identity As Continuity Of Degree
- Derek Parfit argues personal identity questions have no single correct answer and are often pseudo‑questions.
- He replaces strict identity with psychological continuity and connectedness as matters of degree.
Real Hemispheres Support Parfit's Puzzle
- Tamler describes hemispherectomy cases to show people survive with half a brain, grounding Parfit's split‑brain thought experiments.
- He uses his niece's recovery as an example that physical brain division doesn't obviously destroy personal survival.
Connectedness, Not Binary Identity
- Parfit treats psychological connectedness as gradable: stronger overlap means stronger claim to 'survival'.
- He illustrates this with long‑lived organisms whose memories and preferences fade over centuries.