Is There Physical Continuity in Star Trek Transporter Cases?

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The idea then, and I didn't start with the same intuitions as you about transporter cases. So I guess you have, like, a implicitly a physical continuity view of identity because a lot of people are not where you and Paul are. They watch the show and they don't think, oh, Kirk just died and now this Kirk is there, right? And it's not a big cognitive dissonance thing either. It's just like, you know, psychological continuity is something that seems to trigger a lots of people's intuitions about identity.

Tamler’s earlier self committed to doing an episode on Parfit, and David holds his current self to that promise, which shows how unconvinced David was by Parfit’s skepticism about personal identity. Or something like that. We argue about the value of Parfit’s sci-fi thought experiments and the implications of believing there’s no clear sense of “me.” Plus, we talk about a recent article on aphantasia – the inability to conjure images in your mind – and the question that pops into everyone’s head when they hear about this condition.