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The state of remaining as one's original self after the bodily self has been amalgamated or deconstructed through time and experience.

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Parfitian survival

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Source Word

Parfitian survival

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Japanese Meaning

身体が時間や経験によって再構成（融合または分解）された後でも、元々の自己として存続する状態。 / 肉体の変化を経ても、本来のアイデンティティや自己性が保たれる現象。

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Google Translation / DeepL Translation

生涯にわたる心理的な変化や義肢による身体の融合を経験した後、彼女は時間や経験を経て身体が融合・解体されても元の自分が存続するという自己の持続性が自分に当てはまるかどうかを疑問に思った。

Sense（1）

I actually find Parfit's picture of survival depressing, but that of course is by comparison with what I take survival to be. By Parfitian survival, Parfitian death may may not seem so depressing.

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Sense（2）

The question of one's psychological continuity and personal identity surviving through various philosophical thought experiments.

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