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Full Idea
If the mind is merely a bundle of states and events, it must be logically possible for the various elements of the bundle to exist on their own.
Gist of Idea
Can the mental elements of a 'bundle' exist on their own?
Source
Peter Carruthers (Introducing Persons [1986], 2.iii (A))
Book Ref
Carruthers,Peter: 'Introducing Persons' [Routledge 1992], p.52
A Reaction
Depends how literally you take the bundle metaphor, and how much you are worried about 'logical' possibility (which only seems to mean imaginable). The answers to these questions do not have to be all-or-nothing.