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Ideas for 'A Discourse on Method', 'The Human Animal' and 'How Things Persist'

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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 3. Self as Non-physical

3609	I am a thinking substance, which doesn't need a place or material support [Descartes]

16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 7. Self and Body / a. Self needs body

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Maybe our persistence conditions concern bodies, rather than persons [Olson, by Hawley]

6669	For 'animalism', I exist before I became a person, and can continue after it, so I am not a person [Olson, by Lowe]

16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 5. Concerns of the Self

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On any theory of self, it is hard to explain why we should care about our future selves [Hawley]