I don't think so. We're constantly destroying who we are. The teleportation metaphor just takes what is usually psychic background noise and forces you to look at it. "We" end, and get restarted, every morning. We constantly rearrange ourselves, psychologically and biologically. There is no point in the arc of our existence that you can pick out and say, "that's the original me," just like there's no point where you can say, "well, that's just a copy."
The reason you cannot distinguish an original you is that there is no breakpoint, it is all the original you. Even as you sleep you are concious on some level, and sleep is not an abrupt moment where you are suddenly different, in the gradual transition from drowsy to tired to falling asleep to dreaming, there is no point where you yourself can identify as when you fell asleep, try writing down the exact time you fell asleep, you cant really.
there is no point where you yourself can identify as when you fell asleep
Yes, exactly. And in the same way, no one can identify when they die. Experience is all we can experience. Which mean theoretical breaks of time or space to that experience are meaningless.
I don't think so. We're constantly destroying who we are. The teleportation metaphor just takes what is usually psychic background noise and forces you to look at it. "We" end, and get restarted, every morning. We constantly rearrange ourselves, psychologically and biologically. There is no point in the arc of our existence that you can pick out and say, "that's the original me," just like there's no point where you can say, "well, that's just a copy."
The reason you cannot distinguish an original you is that there is no breakpoint, it is all the original you. Even as you sleep you are concious on some level, and sleep is not an abrupt moment where you are suddenly different, in the gradual transition from drowsy to tired to falling asleep to dreaming, there is no point where you yourself can identify as when you fell asleep, try writing down the exact time you fell asleep, you cant really.
Yes, exactly. And in the same way, no one can identify when they die. Experience is all we can experience. Which mean theoretical breaks of time or space to that experience are meaningless.
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general anesthesia doesnt shut off everything, but a lot more than sleeping does