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because we just hypothesized,
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oh, Shelly Kagan's soul's up there.
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So at the very same moment
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that positing the nonsplitting of souls
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seems to solve the fission problem of duplication,
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it yanks the rug out from underneath the soul theorist
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by undermining one of the types of arguments
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for believing in the soul in the first place.
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After all, if Righty can be a person,
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admittedly not Shelly Kagan,
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but a person--conscious, creative,
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rational, so forth, aware--