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#321 - Reckoning with Parfit

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Tele-Transporter Case

The tele-transporter case is the... I've discussed this in various places before on the podcast, but people will be familiar with the concept. It's imagined to be a procedure where essentially all of the information in the atoms in the body gets read out and encoded and sent at the speed of light to a new pod. Parfit imagines a few different versions of this procedure which change our intuitions as to what's happening there.

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