What criteria (or criterion) do you believe to be essential to personal identity? Provide arguments and examples to support your view.

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PERSONAL IDENTITY
Personal identity is something that distinguishes an individual from the other. It is a unique criterion which is inhibited in each and every individual.
Essentially there are three basic criterions that are essential for personal identity- the physical criterion, the psychological criterion and the mixed criterion. These criteria are not obsolete these are just some general ways to rectify who is who. It also helps to rectify that what the identity of the person over time consists in, what it needs to be the same person over time. The physical criterion specifies that, the identity of a person overtime consists in the obtaining of some relation of physical continuity. This observation specifies that same living biological object (whether, body or brain) is most needed to be the same person. For instance as per the bodily criterion , person 1 at time T1 is identical to person 2 at time T2 if in the condition both person 1...