I don't think that the Teletransportation Paradox particularly proves or disproves the existence of souls. If Fred has no soul, and if Fred becomes Fred-A and F

I don't think that the Teletransportation Paradox particularly proves or disproves the existence of souls. If Fred has no soul, and if Fred becomes Fred-A and Fred-B at a distinct moment in time (thanks to a teleporter that can copy, not just print / scan / fax :P ), then neither Fred-A nor Fred-B have souls. If Fred does have a soul, and if Fred becomes Fred-A and Fred-B at a distinct moment in time, then the most logical conclusion IMHO is that Fred's soul also becomes soul-A and soul-B at that same moment in time. Sort of like branching in version control! There are other possible conclusions, mainly based on imposing some sort of special "no duplicate souls" rule - e.g. the original single soul continues to exist inside the two new Freds simultaneously, the original Fred had a soul but the two new Freds are soulless, etc. Hmmm, I guess this argument is piquing my interest, maybe I should just go and read Parfit's work.