Table 2.

Diachronic psychological criterion of personal identity.

We might appeal, either in addition or instead, to various psychological relations between different mental states and events, such as the relations involved in memory, or in the persistence of intentions, desires, and other psychological features. These relations together constitute what I call psychological connectedness, which is a matter of degree. Psychological continuity consists of overlapping chains of such connections (Parfit, 2007, p. 6).