Transporters and Swampmen
Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 8:38 am
If a Star Trek-style transporter functioned by vaporizing your molecules and remotely reorganizing carbon, oxygen, etc. down in the swamp you were transporting to, would you consider the one who came into being down in the swamp you, or some not-you swampman/(woman)?
I'm no deep philosopher, but it's interesting. Also, aren't most of my atoms cycled out of my body as cells die and new ones take their place? Yet I consider myself the same me that was once a third grader in another time.
I'm no deep philosopher, but it's interesting. Also, aren't most of my atoms cycled out of my body as cells die and new ones take their place? Yet I consider myself the same me that was once a third grader in another time.