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Replication
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This is where an obvious copying process takes place. I would claim that Teletransportation1 falls under this head. I'm currently not clear whether there's a distinction between replication and duplication2.
Does amoebic division? When an amoeba divides, this is not a case of fission3 but of reproduction. So, there are three amoebae involved – the original one and the two daughters. This is not the same situation as in fission.
The above said, does this case depend:
- on how the case is described4 and
- on how empirically the duplication occurs?
If the amoebic division occurs by budding of a daughter, so that we can continually "track" the parent, then we have straightforward reproduction. If the division is symmetrical, the case would be as described above, though maybe on a perdurantist5 view we originally had two coincident6 amoebae that both persist. We need to watch out for closest continuer7 descriptions of the case.
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