Submitted by BernardJOrtcutt t3_z0zpb0 in philosophy
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Reply to comment by jetzteinestulle in /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | November 21, 2022 by BernardJOrtcutt
If you can teleport, why would you want or need a clone of yourself? Even if you're completing replicating the same mind and life experiences, once that clone is created you've affectively created another person. That once they begin to live and interact with the world, the things they see and do will be completely separate and isolated from your life experiences, so they then really serve you no purpose of do you any good. You can't teleport back home after your clone has just spent a week with your wife and try to call back into the routine. That entire week that was spent is completely unknown to you and will not be able to speak on or to anything that transpired during that time. Your wife might as well be speaking to a stranger. What would be the purpose in any part of that?
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