 On top of this, Locke asserts that even if an individual has the same soul, he may fail to be the same person. Locke makes this point in L-N 2.27.14, 23, and 24. In the “day and night-man” passage, or 2.27.23, Locke asks the reader to imagine “…two distinct incommunicable consciousnesses acting the same Body, the one constantly by Day, the other by Night” (L-N 2.27.23). Locke goes on to suggest that the “…Day and the Night-man” are “as distinct persons as Socrates and Plato” (L-N 2.27.23). Locke then makes clear that this is the case even if day and night-man share the same soul: