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In article <92290.005644U53846@uicvm.uic.edu> U53846@uicvm.uic.edu writes:
>From: U53846@uicvm.uic.edu
>Subject: dream
>Date: 16 Oct 92 05:56:44 GMT

>Hi could any one out there can provide me some idea for the following
>   question?

>   The question is:  when you woke up this morning, how do you know you are
>                     the same persons today that you were yesterday before you
>                     went to sleep?  and how do you know others are the same
>                     persons today that they were yesterday?

>            Thanks very much!

Well, the answer to the second question is that you don't know. This for 
reasons tied up with the more general Other Minds problem--unless you take
the line that personal identity is simply spatio-temporal continuity, then,
maybe.

As to the sleeping case, if "I" am constituted by the totality of all my
character and personality traits--beliefs, feelings, etc--both public and
private, then there's no problem, since I can almost certainly be sure that
I still believe that Austin is the capitol of Texas after I wake up in the
morning, that I still don't like hot tomolies, that I still love my mother,
that I still enjoy talking philosophy. If there's no considerable 
interruption in my exemplification of these attributes and dispositions, why
should I doubt it is "me" who wakes up?
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