Working paper
If Teleportation Is Survival, What Separates Everettian Selves?
Personal identity, many worlds, and the need for record-continuity.
Overview
If teleportation can count as survival because it preserves the relevant structure of a subject, then local material continuity cannot be the fundamental criterion of identity. In an Everettian setting, this raises the question of what separates future selves across branches. The paper argues for record-continuity rather than bare locality or bare duplication.
Role in the RBO project
This item belongs to the Self and Continuity section of the RBO website. It should be read according to its status label: Working paper.
RBO is a BCT-derived philosophical framework for individuation. This item contributes to the project’s account of finite systems, stable traces/records, individuation, continuity, correction, and definite outcomes, while BCT remains the physics-facing core where quantum measurement is concerned.