# Personal identity and consciousness

- Id: `personal_identity_and_consciousness`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/personal-identity-and-consciousness/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `30be930ea45d289ef80a6d265203f262efad994b768beba107250ee78392cb4d`

## Summary

For Locke, personal identity follows continuity of consciousness across actions and thoughts; it is not simply identical with the same substance or body.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 1,114 passages across 1 works, including An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:locke.essay_human_understanding:B4.C9.S3",
    "passage:locke.essay_human_understanding:B4.C9.S2",
    "passage:locke.essay_human_understanding:B4.C9.S1"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 1,
    "passages": 1114,
    "thinkers": 1,
    "traditions": 1
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "locke.essay_human_understanding",
        "title": "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding",
        "author": "John Locke",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/john-locke/essay-human-understanding/"
    }
]
```