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In the cases above, A, B and C are continuous with me.
If we lack the "no branching" clause, we are forced to say that, because both brothers are psychologically continuous with me, they are both me.
Were my cerebrum transplanted into another's biological organism, such that that person were now fully psychologically continuous with me, it seems that ownership of my actions would have been transferred as well, such that my cerebrum inheritor now is eligible for accountability for my actions, despite his not being biologically continuous with me.
According to this view, then, some past action is my own (for purposes of accountability) just in case the person who performed the action is uniquely psychologically continuous with me (where this consists in overlapping chains of strong psychological connectedness).
A brilliant neurosurgeon can transplant one of my brain hemispheres into each brother, and so each survivor (we will stipulate) will be fully psychologically continuous with me upon waking up.
Perhaps what gives me a reason to care about what happens to the man people will call by my name tomorrow is not that he is me, but that he is then psychologically continuous with me as I am now (see Section 4), or because he relates to me in some other way that does not imply that we are the same person.
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If someone other than me were psychologically continuous tomorrow with me as I am now, he would have what matters to me, and I ought to transfer my selfish concern to him.
The white Cuts, their non-hues at times continuous with those of the walls they hang on, put me in mind of the American Robert Ryman, who in the same period began his experiments with subtly varied all-white painting.
Cooper told me that he sees his GIF projects as continuous with his prose fiction, composed according to "the same principles and planning and structuring" as his work in print.
With video, the equation is turned around: the shoot is continuous with post-production, the editing is a continuation of the shoot by other means.
In one take, he makes sure I see the link to his article (even if I didn't open the previous email), and makes his email correspondence with me feel continuous and purposeful.
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