Person Teletransportation Thought Experiment
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A Person Teletransportation Thought Experiment is a thought experiment to explore personal identity.
- See: Identity (Philosophy).
References
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletransportation_paradox Retrieved:2015-11-22.
- The teletransportation paradox (also known in alternative forms as the duplicates paradox) is a thought experiment on the philosophy of identity that challenges some of our common intuitions on the nature of self and consciousness. It first appeared in full published form presumably in Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, but similar questions have been raised as early as 1775.
1984
- (Parfit, 1984) ⇒ Derek Parfit. (1984). “Reasons and Persons." Oxford University Press,
1775
- Thomas Reid. (1775). letter to Lord Kames
- QUOTE: I would be glad to know your Lordship's opinion whether when my brain has lost its original structure, and when some hundred years after the same materials are fabricated so curiously as to become an intelligent being, whether, I say that being will be me; or, if, two or three such beings should be formed out of my brain; whether they will all be me, and consequently one and the same intelligent being.