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 […]

Starmans and Bloom ([1]; henceforth S&B) argue that research on the centrality of morality in people’s intuitions about personal identity does not reveal much about people’s notions of personal identity (whether an individual is the same person at timea and timea+1), but only something about their notions of similarity (how much the person at timea […]