For example, if the "original" were duped into thinking it was just going to be a transportation — Dawnstorm
There's a difference in bodily continuity between the person not "transported" and the person on Mars, and that difference is susceptible to ordinal description: one body is more continuous than the other — Dawnstorm
So is the person who steps into the transporter the same person that steps out of the transporter, even though the body that stepped into the transporter has been taken apart and re-assembled? — Dawnstorm
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