Somewhat similarly, one of the most useful shifts in identity to apply it to more cases usefully is to take the view that “My identity is an algorithm/function” as the more fundamental primitive/general case, and view the idea that “My identity is a physical object” is a useful special case, but the physicalist view of identity cannot hold in certain regimes.
The shift from a physical view to an algorithmic view of an identity answers/dissolves/sidesteps a lot of confusing questions about what happens to identity.
(It’s also possible that identity in a sense is basically a fiction, but that’s another question entirely)
Somewhat similarly, one of the most useful shifts in identity to apply it to more cases usefully is to take the view that “My identity is an algorithm/function” as the more fundamental primitive/general case, and view the idea that “My identity is a physical object” is a useful special case, but the physicalist view of identity cannot hold in certain regimes.
The shift from a physical view to an algorithmic view of an identity answers/dissolves/sidesteps a lot of confusing questions about what happens to identity.
(It’s also possible that identity in a sense is basically a fiction, but that’s another question entirely)