The in-place replacement proponents claim that you don't survive by
copying, but do survive by in-place replacement of parts.  In what
follows, Parfit presents the most significant challenge to the
survival- through-brain-repair alone method to date.
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Parfit REASONS AND PERSONS p.474-475:
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"In Case One, the surgeon performs a hundred operations. In each of
these, he removes a hundredth part of my brain, and inserts a replica
of this part.  In Case Two, the surgeon follows a different
procedure.  He first removes all of the parts of my brain, and then
inserts all of their replicas....In both of my cases, there will
later be a person whose brain will be exactly like my present brain,
....Can this be the difference between life and death? Can my fate
depend on this difference in the ordering of removals and insertions?
 Can it be so important, for my survival, whether the new parts are,
for a time, joined to the old parts?"
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