Who Holds A Person?: A Short Inquiry into Identity, Recognition, and Disappearance

By: Kim, Jaeyell

Every stranger carries a life we cannot enter. From that simple fact, Who Holds a Person? opens into a larger philosophical question: is identity something we possess privately, or something sustained across relationships, memory, and the traces we leave behind?

In 'Who Holds A Person?', Jaeyell Kim examines personhood through three forms of continuity: internal continuity, relational continuity, and trace continuity. When these align, identity feels stable. When they diverge, the boundaries of the self become uncertain.

Using both ordinary experience and thought experiments such as mind uploading, the book explores what it means to remain, to disappear, and to return. Rather than offering easy answers, it provides a clear language for thinking about recognition, loss, and the fear of becoming unheld in the world.

For readers interested in philosophy, consciousness, and the structure of selfhood, this is a calm and thought-provoking inquiry into what a person is.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GS1G6Y22
• ISBN13: 9798251196443
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"