After all, on the body view, I still exist when I'm a corpse.
On the personality view, I don't exist when I'm a corpse.
Not for a single second, never, not once, have I ever thought, I wish I Facebook existed when I went to high school and college.
As far as I know, that server, which I'm quite certain did exist when I bought it in 2006, could have been replaced long ago by some form of virtualization.
The jobs I do now didn't exist when I was 13.
So on the personality theory, I did not exist when that fertilized egg came into being, when the egg and the sperm joined.
What I'm doing now didn't exist when I did my degree.
"I don't agree with high income taxes," she said, "and I feel like Social Security won't exist when I retire".
I don't know about you, but this problem did not seem to exist when I was growing up; I had only one friend with a nut allergy.
There's high value in journalistic voice, something that I wasn't sure was going to exist when I left day-to-day journalism.
