ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book discusses some accounts of unity of consciousness, and suggests that the idea that the Self is the unifier of conscious experience provides a better account of unity of consciousness than the alternatives. It argues that the Self is continuous entity. The book shows that neither Parfit's Relation R, nor Brennan's S - relation, give an adequate version of survival. It focuses on personal identity is not accountable in terms of bodily identity or continuity, and that bodily identity is not logically necessary for the continuity of the Self. Since the Self is either present or not, its survival cannot be a matter of degree, linger has attempted to show that the subject can be partly present, that it can fade away, and so that its survival can be a matter of degree.
