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Imagine an Atom Scattering Machine completely disassembles your body’s atoms into a cloud of floating atoms. Then it perfectly reassembles the atoms, and you walk out feeling totally normal. Is the new you still you? (detailed scientific visual depiction below)
  • Yes
    66.2%
  • No
    33.8%
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For those who answered “yes”: What if instead of disassembling you, we just did step 2 and 3, gathering those same atoms somewhere else and assembling them into the same exact “you” configuration? Are there two you’s now? If you’re not controlling the body of new you, who is?
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