Beaming Bodies
A Neo-Lockean Account of Material Persistence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22134064 |
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| Authors | Richard Mark Hanley (0000-0003-2234-3170, University of Delaware, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 109 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-17 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2409-9287 • E-ISSN: 2409-9287 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/philosophies9040109 |
| OpenAlex | W4400732355 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Conventional wisdom holds that human bodies do not and cannot persist through beaming: scanning and destruction of the body, followed by transmission of the scan information and replication of the body in another location. I argue that given the minimal time travel assumption that information can be sent into the past, it is logically possible for (duplicates of) human bodies to exist in object loops. If so, then conventional wisdom is wrong, and bodies can persist through beaming. The lesson generalizes to all composite material objects that can persist through intrinsic change
Epistemology · Physics · Theoretical physics · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Artificial Intelligence · Geology
| Highly cited | No |
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