*rolls eyes*
FINE, different approach. It's
metaphysics metaphor time!
I write a story. An ongoing story. Like a giant book. Every time a page gets crumbled or starts to degrade, I will write down all letters of that page onto a fresh new one and replace the old one with it. Over time all the pages are replaced. It's still the same story. Now I say "Hey I want to show someone else my awesome story, but sending them the book is too expensive." So instead of sending them a physical copy, I send them the story via binary code. They have a decoder that automatically prints the decoded stuff onto blank new pages smewhere else and also makes it into a book. (Depending on how far you want to go with the clone idea, you could say they try to produce the exact same replica.)
How is the stoy he receives NOT the story you have written? It's exactly the same.
Of course, you'd also have to throw your book into the fires of mount doom, because two copies of the same story is simply irresponsible.
Well... yeah it would... Of course we are talking about a nonconditional and degrade-free transplantation of all memories and emotions to the other body. So yeah... I'd be fine with that. After all you're never the same person you are from birth. Every single cell in your body will have been replaced at least once. (With the possible exception of the bones, but last time I checked they don't carry a consciousness.)
Of course we assume that the other person's consciousness will be removed. I don't wanna have any split personalities in my new body.
Yes, but flisch, there is no continuity. YOU DIE. For everyone else its like you never left, but the you that goes in the teleporter instantly dies.
Take this analogy.
You buy a guitar. Through playing it, naturally the strings break from time to time and need replacing. Then when you are moving house a builder puts his foot through the body and it has to be replaced. Some years later while imitating Metal icons of the ages you smash the guitar against a bandmate's head and the neck breaks and has to be replaced.
Is it the same guitar now that every part has been replaced, is it the same guitar? Arguably yes, arguably no, its pretty ambiguous.
However, one thing most people would agree on is its more the same guitar than if you just bought a brand new guitar and replaced the old one.
How is a guitar an analogy to your mind. If anything it's an analogy to your body, and I agree with everyone who says that the new body is not YOUR body, as it isn't made of the same atoms. (Unless string theory is involved. lol)
Addendum: If anyone is going to say the story is destroyed by throwing the original book into mount doom, I am going to smack that person with the definition of a story. (Hint: A story is not a physical object.)
