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What We Should Care About<br />

Maybe if this happened, we’d d give up the<br />

notion of strict personal identity. Maybe,<br />

as Parfit suggests, we should instead treat<br />

it as a matter of degree.<br />

If what matters is our concern about our<br />

future self (or selves), then this seems to<br />

reflect the way we would judge about a<br />

split brain case: we care about the future<br />

of both future invididuals.<br />

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