Arguments Against William's Ideas

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William's idea is that if people live the immortal life, they tend to be changed over time. Engaging in intellectual activity and getting experiences and endless new perspectives enables one to lose oneself. One is not oneself anymore at a point of time in the immortal life. That's the problem to satisfy the identity condition: "it should be me who lives for ever".

However, to argue against William's idea, Fischer mentions that one can look at the activities, experiences or things that one get over time as one's own future. People changes their personalities/characters does not mean they are not themselves anymore. It's not by personalities/characters that we differentiate or recognize people, but by time and space - spatial-temporal continuity.

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