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Ideas for 'The Problem of the Soul', 'Meditations' and 'Intro to 'Self-Representational Consciousness''

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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / b. Self as mental continuity

5351	We only have a sense of our self as continuous, not as exactly the same [Flanagan]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 7. Self and Thinking

1401	Since I only observe myself to be thinking, I conclude that that is my essence [Descartes]

2299	I can exist without imagination and sensing, but they can't exist without me [Descartes]

6907	For Descartes a person's essence is the mind because objects are perceived by mind, not senses [Descartes, by Feuerbach]