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Originally Posted by Ficfactor
Is a non-religious woman that undergoes a deeply spiritual experience and becomes a devout theist still the same person? Is a wide-eyed, innocent boy that goes off to war and returns a hollow-eyed, cynical man still the same person? Are you and I the same individual people we were ten years ago?
For me, even if their values and morality change significantly, as long as there is a consistent stream of consciousness, it still counts as the same person. Even if a character experiences a corruption so thorough that their personality is drastically different afterwards, as long as you haven't actively tampered with their memories (beyond a revised outlook), it's still only corruption, rather than personality death.
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That is the crux of it. How far is too far? how extreme of a change makes the difference between the evolution of someones identity though experience and the annihilation of their identity? some times it's easy, if they remember everything and retain many of the same feelings it's clearly still the same person but if they don't remember anything from before, have no past connections or feelings towards their old life it isn't the same person at all, only the same body.
Like I said it's iffy as a transformation for that reason, not enough changes and what was the point? too many and you don't have a changed person, you have a different one.