The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 116 of 254
Souls preserve identity only with consciousness
Locke continues, ‘He is no more one self with either of them than if the soul or immaterial spirit that now informs him had been created, and began to exist, when it began to inform his present body.’ In itself, having the soul of someone now dead no more makes you that person than having the same liver would. Souls would only preserve identity if they took their consciousness with them. Locke’s point is so self-evident that you can’t even call it an argument. Just