" A person has a body ". " A person is a body ". Which of these statements more accurately expresses the truth about personal identity?

" A person has a body ". " A person is a body ". Which of these statements more accurately expresses the truth about personal identity? When considering the content of the question there are two questions which must be considered before an adequate conclusion can be found; what really and fundamentally identifies and distinguishes persons at a single time and what enables us to reidentify them over time? The second question of course deals with how people change …

…solution. I would like to think that a persons character or psychological identity as well as his body or his physical identity make up his identity as a whole and changes to each would both affect his identity as a whole. However if asked to chose which is more accurate I think that the mind is more important than the body and would agree that " a person has a body " would be the most accurate.