Mind
What makes a person the same self across change, memory, embodiment, and time?
The self is anchored in an immaterial soul whose rational order can survive bodily change.
There is no enduring self-substance; personal identity is a dependent flow of aggregates and causes.
Identity is reconstructed from experience, memory, and psychological continuity rather than innate essence.
The self appears through lived experience, embodiment, intentionality, and being-in-the-world.
Selfhood is not a fixed essence but a project formed through choice, responsibility, and situation.
The problem of personal identity asks whether a self is a substance, a pattern, a narrative, or a practical achievement. Ancient soul theories, Buddhist non-self, empiricist memory accounts, and phenomenological embodiment each shift the center of the problem.
The map treats this as a bridge problem between metaphysics and philosophy of mind: it asks what persists, but also what it is like to inhabit that persistence.