“Suppose that you enter a cubicle in which, when you press a button, a scanner records the states of all the cells in your brain and body, destroying both while doing so. This information is then transmitted at the speed of light to some other planet, where a replicator produces a perfect organic copy of you. Since the brain of your Replica is exactly like yours, it will seem to remember living your life up to the moment when you pressed the button, its character will be just like yours, and it will be in every other way psychologically continuous with you." (from DerekParfit, "Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons")
Are you willing to press the button? Do you think you will survive thisteletransportation? Why or why not? Explain your answer in terms of one of the personal identity theories (the soul criterion, the bodily criterion, the memory (psychological) criterion, the bundle theory, or your own).
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