• Mijin
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    Because, the only thing we can know for sure about PC, from the transporter problem as it is usually phrased, is that an identical copy is a continuation of the self.
    — Mijin

    I don't think this is the case. The problem as it's usually phrase is designed to test your intuitions about what constitutes identity.
    AmadeusD

    I think this is the critical misunderstanding on your part, and is my response to all of your points in that post.
    I was laying out what the personal continuity position is. The "you are transported" position.

    No, it is not asking you to question whether an identical copy is you: that's the point of Parfit's transporter problem in the first place. PC is explicitly a response about such problems; it's making an explicit claim about what would happen.
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