Withering minds – towards a unified embodied mind theory of personal identity for understanding dementia
A prominent view on personal identity over time, Jeff McMahan’s ‘Embodied Mind Account’ (2002) holds that we cease to exist only once our brains can no longer sustain the basic capacity to uphold consciousness. One of the many implications of this view on identity persistence is that we continue to...
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BMJ Publishing Group
2021
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