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A concrete person is made up of a large number of physical and mental characteristics. Which of these characteristics can we change and still have the same person? And which of them must stay the same if one and the same person is to survive? Are bodily characteristics, or a certain class of them (like brain processes), essential? Or are mental properties like experiences, beliefs, intentions and other personality traits more important? Or — is the nature of personhood really undefinable in terms of any bodily or psychological properties or combinations thereof?
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Vollmer, F. (1999). Persons. In: Agent Causality. Synthese Library, vol 283. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9225-3_4
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