Problems of identity assuming exact copies
Various questions/problems about personal (and object) identity arise when you consider the possibility of generating exact copies of people (or objects).
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If a person makes himself a clone, would they begin to question whether they existed before that moment?
Suppose a man has a cloning machine. It has two chambers A and B. Any person who wants to make a clone of himself/herself enters in chamber A. Then, the machine does one of these two things:
Teleport the original person to chamber B and make their…
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