De Freitas et al. [1] agree with us about the importance of distinguishing between personal identity and similarity. We agree with them that individuals can be obliterated through severe neurodegeneration and the like: as we put it in our original article [2], ‘There are cases … where it may be thought that a person ceases to exist while their body survives, as in severe dementia.’ [3]. Finally, we share an appreciation of research on the notion of a morally good true self (indeed, one of us is a coauthor on the first paper on the topic).
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