Personal IdentityPersonal identity can be broken down into three areas: 1.) Body, 2.) Memory, and 3.) Soul. In John Perry's “A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality,” these constitutive aspects of personal identity are discussed at length. In readings and class discussions, the body was clearly defined as a part of the person, sometimes even referred to as a “prison” from which one cannot escape until one dies. A person's memory and soul seemed to be grouped together on several occasions, which is understandable, as the two have a lot in common, as they are intangible, and cannot be completely defined as to what exactly each is. (people remember things that didn't actually happen to them). , are these still memories? ; do you have only one soul throughout your life?), and the two are thought to make up a person's character and beliefs. This essay will discuss the two aspects of personal identity that are most evident in everyday life, that of the body and the soul/memory. As stated previously, memory and the soul exhibit many of the same qualities. and the soul, however, also share this trait. Perry illustrates in his essay that the body and soul are similar because there is a "connection" between them, that is, they both constitute a person and are responsible for the qualities associated with being being an individual (height, weight, character, belief). , etc.). Perry also returns to challenge this using the analogy of a river. If someone goes to a river, then returns the next day to the same river, the person will not say that it is a different river, even if almost all the properties of the river have changed (water molecules, level pollution, temperature, etc.). It is the same with a person, because we say that a person in adolescence is still the same person in adulthood, even though their beliefs, knowledge and character may have changed over the years. Perry responds to this problem by saying that we can still view the person as the same by the relative "sameness" of the person to what he or she was in the past, and that "[s]imilarity of the body is a reliable sign of the sameness of all.” ; of the soul". In another example, Perry differentiates between the body and the soul by saying that "personal identity" (referring to the soul/spirit) cannot be based on bodily identity, because we can judge who we are without having to compromise any judgment on the body. Perry continues to elaborate on this point by saying that even if he woke up.