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The products of fission, fusion, and teletransportation: an occasional identity theorist's perspective
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posted on 2023-06-08, 11:18 authored by Simon Langford, Murali RamachandranAdvocates of occasional identity have two ways of interpreting putative cases of fission and fusion. One way—we call it the Creative view—takes fission to involve an object really dividing (or being replicated), thereby creating objects which would not otherwise have existed. The more ontologically parsimonious way takes fission to involve merely the ‘separation’ of objects that were identical before: strictly speaking, no object actually divides or is replicated, no new objects are created. In this paper we recommend the Creative approach as the best way of dealing with certain problem cases involving teletransportation. Our considerations yield novel takes on psychological-continuity theories of personal identity and survival, and on the puzzle of Theseus' ship.
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Australasian Journal of PhilosophyISSN
0004-8402Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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1Volume
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105-117Department affiliated with
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