On 11/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jef Allbright</b> <<a href="mailto:jef@jefallbright.net">jef@jefallbright.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
(2) Some people have "moved up" beyond the common-sense description of<br>personal identity to embrace the broader "patternist" definition but<br>have yet to embrace an even more general description based on agency
<br>rather than physical/functional similarity.</blockquote><div><br>I'm curious, what's your definition of identity based on agency? (I remember your general "wider contexts" philosophy and there's some validity in it, but not sure how it bears on the question of identity.)
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