Teletransportation paradox

The teletransportation paradox or teletransport paradox (also known in alternative forms as the duplicates paradox) is a thought experiment on philosophy of identity that challenges common intuitions on the nature of self and consciousness. It was formulated by Derek Parfit in his 1984 book Reasons and Persons. It prompts the question: If a person is somehow re-created, say by teletransportation, is the re-creation the same person?

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