Grice revisits his theory of personal identty

H.P. Grice attempted to defend Locke’s theory by making some alterations to it. He created the term, Total Temporary State (T.T.S.), and stated that each temporary state is within a temporal series. He also claimed that each T.T.S. contains within it, as an element, a memory of some experience, which will therefore be included as an element in all following members of the temporal series. However, this idea would still fall victim to Reid’s criticism. So he inserted another alteration: only under certain conditions would a T.T.S. contain an element that had been experienced in a preceding member of the serious. Grice knew that consciousness was complex and often memories were not held onto. He stated that every experience of one’s identity being remembered for the rest of that identity’s existence was an absurd idea. Basically, Grice believed that consciousness is what provides the necessary continuity to constitute an identity, but that consciousness is infallible.