123. Personal Identity & the Transporter Paradox | THUNK

What makes me "me?" How can I still be me, even though I change over time? Is Starfleet taking applications yet?

Links for the Curious

Parfit's review of personal identity - http://home.sandiego.edu/~baber/metap...

CGP Grey’s amazing “The Trouble with Transporters” -    • The Trouble with Transporters  

PhilosophyTube’s very thorough (& speedy!) coverage of personal identity -    • Personal Identity - Philosophy Tube  

The SEP’s brilliant article on personal identity (including major problems & possible solutions) - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/id...

“Teletransportation Paradox,” via Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletra...

Thomas Reid’s scathing letter to Lord Kames regarding the Resurrection (the OG transporter paradox) - https://goo.gl/KREL2F

A brief summary of Hume’s work on personal identity (aka bundle theory) - https://www3.nd.edu/~jspeaks/courses/...