Beaming Bodies: A Neo-Lockean Account of Material Persistence

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Author(s)Hanley, Richard Mark
Date Accessioned2024-12-16T20:10:17Z
Date Available2024-12-16T20:10:17Z
Publication Date2024-07-17
DescriptionThis article was originally published in Philosophies. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies9040109. Copyright: © 2024 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
AbstractConventional 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.
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CitationHanley, Richard Mark. 2024. "Beaming Bodies: A Neo-Lockean Account of Material Persistence" Philosophies 9, no. 4: 109. https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies9040109
ISSN2409-9287
URLhttps://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/35665
Languageen_US
PublisherPhilosophies
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
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Keywordsbeaming
Keywordsteleportation
Keywordstime travel
Keywordsobject persistence
Keywordssurvival
Keywordspersonal identity
Keywordspsychological continuity
Keywordsbodily continuity
Keywordscausal loops
Keywordsobject loops
TitleBeaming Bodies: A Neo-Lockean Account of Material Persistence
TypeArticle
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