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sdTalking about personal identity, there is a famous story realted to this. There was a ship name thesus. Thesus , eversince been in the sea has gone through continual replacement of its old planks. Oneday it happened that the old planks from that ship isn't there anymore and has been replaced completely by new planks. So, the question is, should we call the name of the ship thesus?Whereas what if a enterpriser collect the replaced parts and build a thesus ship. Should we call the replaced one as the thesus ship or the original one as the thesus ship? There are many questions realted with personal identity of the being. Are we the same person as we were six yrs old and when we've become 19yrs old? What makes it who we are as we were before 1O yrs despite the fact that we are changing continually everday, in one or the other way. As we grow older, our appearance changes with the building of new cells and so does our characteristics. So, after a deep thinking we come to the conclusion that what makes who we are as we were is our memory. Should we forget our past experiences and memories, we'd lost our identity. If i can't remember the face i had yesterday, i would no longer be the same person as i was yesterday. My ability to recall my friends, jobs, sorroundings makes me feel that i am the same person as i was before. So, does this mean that the person who have amnesia aren't the same person? If it is true that our memory makes us who we are then everyday we could be a new person provided that we forget our past habits and characteristics and indulge ourselves in new works.