... way of reassembling persons out of totally new matter? Derek Parfit considers in detail a series of test cases involving an imagined Teletransporter.'l This is a machine that is designed to send a person to distant places like Mars by (1) recording the exact state of all the body's cells (including those of the brain); (2) destroying the body and brain; (3) transmitting the information at the speed of light to ... Mars; where (4) a Replicator creates out of new matter a body and brain exactly like the old one. Suppose Parfit enters the machine and is " ... render the survival thesis in...

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