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Beam “me” up Scotty. This statement all depends on your definition of “me”. How can one define them self? Let’s say for example, Scotty tells me to enter his teleportation machine. On goes the switch and in the blink of an eye, I am teleported to an adjacent pod located 5’ away. I remember nothing of the event except standing in one location and a split second later I am standing 5’ to the left. What happened? Well, for arguments sake let’s say that a computer scanned the molecular make-up of my entire body, deconstructed those molecules, transported them 5’ to the left and reconstructed them. Now, let’s say we perform the teleportation once again. However, this time the computer scans my molecular make-up but doesn’t breakdown the molecules of my body. Instead, the teleportation machine deconstructs the molecules of a 68kg sack of potatoes and uses those molecules to construct “me” 5’ away. So, what’s the difference? Well, in the first example, my experience has me standing in position 1, then instantaneously existing (and knowing) that I am now 5’ to the left. In example two, I am standing in position 1…and I never leave position 1. So, who’s the guy 5’ to my left that looks just like me? Am I more than just a systematic arrangement of molecules? When 2 of me exist in this world, whose eyes do I see out of? Who’s got the answer…..?
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