Abstract Constitution theorists have argued that due to a difference in persistence conditions, persons are not identical with the animals or the bodies that constitute them. A popular line of objection to the view that persons are not identical with the animals/bodies that constitute them is that the view commits one to undesirable overpopulation, with too many minds and too many thinkers. Constitution theorists are well aware of these overpopulation concerns and have gone a long way toward answering them. However, there is one mental excess worry that remains especially problematic. It is argued here that the worry about too many thoughts, or too many instantiations of mentality in general, remains a serious threat to the constitution view of persons. What exactly the threat is and how it arises is described in detail in Section III. It is then shown that attempts to allay the concern are unsuccessful. I argue, in particular, that appealing to the distinction between derivative and non-derivative instantiation fails to solve the problem.

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精神过剩与人格观

摘要宪法理论家认为，由于持久性条件的不同，人与构成它们的动物或身体并不相同。关于人与构成它们的动物/身体不相同的观点的一个普遍反对观点是，这种观点导致了不受欢迎的人口过剩，其思想和思想家过多。宪法理论家非常了解这些人口过剩问题，并且在回答这些问题上走了很长一段路。但是，有一种精神上的过度担心仍然特别成问题。有人认为，担心太多的思想，或总体上思想过多地实例化，仍然严重威胁着人的宪法观点。威胁的确切含义及其产生方式将在第三部分中详细介绍。然后表明，减轻这种担忧的尝试是不成功的。我特别指出，吸引派生实例化和非派生实例化之间的区别并不能解决问题。