ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 argues that you and I are individual human substances that come into existence at conception. Such a highly controversial claim requires addressing several arguments against it. I consider in detail the embodied mind accounts of the human person. I argue that such accounts cannot avoid the too-many thinkers problem highlighted by contemporary animalists. Finally, the controversial edge is mollified a bit because my dialectical goals need not require convincing my readers, but only that the arguments either set the burden of proof, or ground the claim that those who hold a substance account function as epistemic peers.
