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    Can we survive drinking from the River Lethe?
    (Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2007) Erhart, Itır
    The advocates of the Psychological Account daim that our psychological properties like memory and character traits are essential to us, that we would cease to be if we were to lose them. In this paper I will discuss an undesirable consequence of this widely accepted account, namely, branching. Some of the defenders of the Psychological Account try to solve the branching problem by denying the importance of identity or by denying the eıdstence of three-dimensional objects. I will argue that if we adopl animalism this problem can be solved without giving up such intuitions. I will also daim that we can survive total, irreversible amnesia.