Coconsciousness and Numerical Identity
Anderson (Susan Leigh)
Source: Philosophical Studies 30:1-10, 1976
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    The phenomenon of multiple personality – like the "split-brain" phenomenon – involves a disintegration of the normally unified self to the point where one must question whether there is one, or more than one, person associated with the body even at a single moment in time. Besides the traditional problem of determining identity over time, there is now a new problem of personal identity – determining identity at a single moment in time. We need the conceptual apparatus to talk about this new problem and a test, like the one I propose, for determining the number of persons associated with a body at a single moment in time.

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