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...ughts on personal identity. She believes a person is only a live human body and that personal identity is based on sameness of the physical body. Gretchen's own view is not comforting for herself and this disturbance becomes evident when Miller suggests it would be easy to imagine them both meeting in the future in a different place. She uses a metaphor of a kleenex box to question this "but I will rot in a few days. How can, after I rot, the same person suddenly exist somewhere else. It's as if I burned this kleenex box to ashes and you told me the very same one was sitting at home on the self! Wouldn't that be absurd"? Miller insists there could be an exactly similar box, but Gretchen says this is not relevant, " it needs to be one and the same box. I can't anticipate having the experiences of someone just because she's exactly like me." This allows her to concentrate on and introduce the idea of anticipation, which is one of her strongest arguments- " I must be able to anticipate the experiences of future temporal parts of myself. I need to be able to remember and be able to feel proud of what past temporal parts of myself have done Right now this just says that she needs to be able to anticipate future feelings too survive. Why can't she do that? What is...