It doesn't matter that you have ceased to exist, because what has happened to you is quite unlike ordinary death: in your relationship to the two new people there is everything that matters in ordinary survival — a continuity of memories and dispositions that will decay and change as they usually do.
The Psychological Criterion requires sophisticated psychological capacities, sufficient to sustain continuities of memory, intentions, beliefs, desires, and character.
But Elliott and his team have retained the enterprise's initial spiritual purpose, not just sharing an invaluable record of a storied musical performance, but also bearing witness to sacred vocation, commitment to faith and continuity of ancestral memory.
Extreme case sampling with variation on race, socioeconomic status, prenatal diagnosis, and multiple gestations was used to select 7 cases represented by over 72 narrative interviews with parents.Findings are organized into five broad categories: Having Expectations, Continuity of Care, Memory Making, Wide Network of Support, and Altruism.
Is the continuity of your memories or other mental states sufficient for your survival?
The self, he contended, is an identifiable organization within each individual and accounts for the unity of personality, higher motives, and continuity of personal memories.
What one can then insert into the criterion of identity across time is a continuity of direct (q- memories, so that the retired general is the same person as the apple-stealer insofar as he directly remembers the experiences of the brave officer, who himself directly remembers the experiences of the apple-stealer.
Architect Philippe Prost (also known for his renovation of the former French mint, now a museum of contemporary art) chose to create a great circle called The Ring of Memory, symbolizing continuity and persistence on the rolling pastureland with the names of 570,606 slaughter victims etched into the stainless steel structure.
> At the end of this excerpt the doctor then moves on to say that as things have been pretty difficult lately he would like to see them once a month, which is important to highlight as this interaction is within the context of on-going continuity of care within the memory clinic, as are the other cases discussed.
