The teletransportation paradox, also called the teletransport paradox or duplicates paradox, is a thought experiment in the philosophy of personal identity that challenges ordinary intuitions about the self and consciousness. Formulated by Derek Parfit in his 1984 book Reasons and Persons, it asks: if a person is re-created elsewhere, for instance by having their exact physical structure scanned, destroyed and reproduced through teletransportation, is the re-created being the same person who stepped into the machine, or merely an exact copy?
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The teletransportation paradox is Wikipedia's own personal-identity thought experiment, filed as a metaphysics topic in this atlas alongside its sibling entity Compatibilism (also in-branch Metaphysics).
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It was formulated by Derek Parfit in his 1984 book Reasons and Persons.
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The teletransportation paradox... was formulated by Derek Parfit in his 1984 book Reasons and Persons.
Associated With: Derek Parfit, Lead section
It was formulated by Derek Parfit in his 1984 book Reasons and Persons.
In Branch: Metaphysics, Lead section
It was formulated by Derek Parfit in his 1984 book Reasons and Persons.
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