The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 148 of 254
Not identity but what matters
As with the ship of Theseus, the important question is not about identity but about what matters. The same is true when we talk about people in the late stages of dementia. Are they they same persons we knew before the disease took its hold? In some ways yes, in some ways no. It depends. To expect the logic of identity to yield a clear answer is foolish.