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What is it for that person
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who's there on Thursday to be the same person as the person
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who's sitting here lecturing to you today?
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These are questions about the nature of personal identity.
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Pretty clearly,
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to think about death and continued existence and survival,
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we have to get clear about the nature of personal identity.
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These sorts of questions will occupy us
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for roughly the first half of the semester.
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And then we'll turn to value questions.
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If death is the end, is death bad?
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Now, of course, most of us are immediately