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Consciousness
Consciousness: the state of subjective awareness in which an individual experiences thoughts, sensations, and perceptions with a first-person, qualitative character: the 'what it is like' quality of mental life.
Personal Identity
Personal identity is the philosophical question of what makes a person the same individual over time and what constitutes the fundamental nature of the self, asking not just how we recognise people in everyday life but what metaphysically constitutes personhood and the conditions for its persistence.
Personhood
Personhood is the status of being a person, typically defined by possessing certain capacities such as self-consciousness, rationality, moral agency, or social recognition, though the criteria vary across philosophical traditions.
Psychological Continuity
Psychological continuity, associated with John Locke, is the view that personal identity consists in overlapping chains of memory, consciousness, and psychological connection linking earlier and later stages of a person's life, prioritising mental over physical continuity as the criterion of personal identity.