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Teleporters are cool in theory, but in real life they would cause some... paradoxes. The person entering a teleporter would have to be killed in order for a clone of them to be created at the exit. And even if they were identical, this raises the question: are they the same person? This is the famous Theseus Paradox, which deals with issues of identity and what we really are. Become a member of our channel to help keep the videos up and running! http://youtube.com/cienciatododia/join Official Science Every Day Store: http://bit.ly/CamisetasCienciaTodoDia My social networks: /pedroloos / pedroloos Our podcast: http://anchor.fm/sinapse Email: [email protected] A big thank you to the Catarse supporters who made this video possible: Felipe Brandão, Simone Neves, Patricia Guedes, Bruno Valim, Cristian Ellwanger, Edilson Gomes, Roberto Carneiro, Solange Braga, Rapha Nascimento, Allan Marcos, Dario Ferreira, Yann Motta, Carlos Duarte, Charles Barros, Martim Bottene, Rodolfo Kravutschke, René da Silva Bastos, Jackson Cardoso and Lucas Bundyra. Sources and Further Reading: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3327668?... https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/id... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identit... https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/id...