Talk:The Lazy Explorer/@comment-76.191.140.4-20130924225609/@comment-74.67.221.157-20131027220735

This is an unresolved question in philosophy, whether or not tele-transportation is actually death of the original conscious agent and creation of a brand new conscious agent who identifies as the original due to cloned memories.

According to the large scale study of professional philosophers that you can see on philpapers.org opinions are split almost evenly between death (31%), survival (36%), and undecided (33%)