Self depends on consciousness, not on substance. Persons, not substances, the objects of reward and punishment. Which shows wherein personal identity consists. Absolute oblivion separates what is thus forgotten from the person, but not from the man. Difference between identity of man and of person.
Consciousness alone unites remote existences into one person.
Not the substance with which the consciousness may be united. Consciousness unites substances, material or spiritual, with the same personality. Suppositions that look strange are pardonable in our ignorance. The difficulty from ill use of names. Continuance of that which we have made to he our complex idea of man makes the same man.