Cohen's Argumentative Analysis

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Towards the end of the second night, Miller finds himself arguing upon Locke’s insights, stating that the source of identity is the relation between the memories contained in the latest stage of a continuous person-stage, and its former stages. Miller sustains his position on the basis that memories inscribed in the latest person-stage comprehend all previous memories of the stream of consciousness of that particular agent.

Weirob counters this argument by referring to the fallibility of memory, where one is prone to holding false knowledge derived from misremembered, forgotten, or non-existent experiences. Afterwards, Cohen reframes Miller’s position, thus breaking from the circle Miller created by establishing identity as a precursor to