Beaming Bodies: A Neo-Lockean Account of Material Persistence

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dc.contributor.authorHanley, Richard Mark
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-16T20:10:17Z
dc.date.available2024-12-16T20:10:17Z
dc.date.issued2024-07-17
dc.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/).
dc.description.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.
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research received no external funding.
dc.identifier.citationHanley, Richard Mark. 2024. "Beaming Bodies: A Neo-Lockean Account of Material Persistence" Philosophies 9, no. 4: 109. https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies9040109
dc.identifier.issn2409-9287
dc.identifier.urihttps://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/35665
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherPhilosophies
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectbeaming
dc.subjectteleportation
dc.subjecttime travel
dc.subjectobject persistence
dc.subjectsurvival
dc.subjectpersonal identity
dc.subjectpsychological continuity
dc.subjectbodily continuity
dc.subjectcausal loops
dc.subjectobject loops
dc.titleBeaming Bodies: A Neo-Lockean Account of Material Persistence
dc.typeArticle

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