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Identity over time — the puzzle?
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How you stay one person while your body and mind are gradually replaced.
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The ship of Theseus?
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Replace every plank one by one — same ship? Pressures physical/body-based identity.
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The teleporter thought experiment?
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Scan-destroy-rebuild an exact copy elsewhere: did you travel or die? Tests pattern vs physical survival.
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'You survived' the teleporter — why?
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What matters is the pattern of you, not the exact atoms; the copy continues your mental life.
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'You died' in the teleporter — why?
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Your original body was destroyed; the copy is only qualitatively identical, not you.
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The two-copies objection (Go further)?
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Two perfect copies can't both be numerically you, yet neither has a better claim — so pattern-survival can't be identity.
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