Batori, Federico: If Teleportation Is Survival, What Separates Everettian Selves? Personal Identity, Many Worlds, and the Need for Record-Continuity

This paper argues that the philosophical possibility of teleportation creates a neglected pressure point for personal identity in Everettian many-worlds theories. If teleportation can count as survival because it preserves the relevant informational structure of a subject — memories, dispositions, bodily organization, and psychological continuity — then local material continuity cannot be the fundamental criterion of personal identity. But in an Everettian setting, this anti-local implication ge