Chapter 4.2 Video with Quiz

Watch the following video clip and then answer the questions below.

. Locke advocated the memory theory of personal identity, which holds that personal identity persists over time because of a chain of connected memories.

. The body theory of personal identity holds that personal identity persists over time because you inhabit similar, though distinct, bodies from birth to death.

. Bernard Williams' thought experiment was designed to show that both the body theory and the memory theory can both be true.

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