Some extra context for the curious: https://pdf.stafforini.com/parfit-1995-unimportance-identity.pdf
this post was submitted on 27 May 2026
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okey but for a brief moment in time, I cease to exist. What if that moment was a little bit longer? like a minute. Or a day? So the teleportation machine destroys the original body while perfectly retaining all physical (and mental) information and reconstructs it perfectly, at some point later
I would say it is totally not me anymore, i died the moment I entered the machine