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John Weldon's "To Be"
Canadian animation by John Weldon offering a lighthearted overview of a central problem of ontology: the continuity of existence.
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Barbaric Canadians.....
likely to arise for me in any conceiveable future.
By the way, though it is a theorem that in quantum
teleportation the "original" needs to be destroyed
to make possible its reconstruction elsewhere, this
is just a quantum theorem. It does not have much
to do with the kind of identity issues raised by the cartoon. We hardly feel identified with a particular quantum state.
So is a sense of identity with our earlier selves merely a comforting illusion? Far enough back, they might not even recognize us.