An argument for impossibilism

(1) Possibilism is true only if some metaphysically possible non-godlike agent has the power of self-creation.

(2) Necessarily: to the extent that the "new" self one acquires rationally follows from the principles of choice (values, preferences, etc.) of one's previous self, there is no creation; one's "new" self is prefigured in the previous one.

(3) Necessarily: to the extent that the new self one acquires doesn't rationally follow from the principles of choice (preferences, values, etc.) of one's previous self, one is not a source of this new self.

(4) If (2) and (3), no metaphysically possible non-godlike agent has the power of self-creation.

(5) No metaphysically possible non-godlike agent has the power of self-creation. (2-4)

(6) Impossibilism is true. (1,5)

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