Succession of a Subject at a Distance: What Is Transmitted and What Is Grown

Science fiction and transhumanism describe teleportation as the transfer of the very same person: a scan, a signal and reassembly on the spot, or the upload of a mind into a digital carrier. In the Causa Sui theory this is impossible: the program of action cannot be separated from its carrier (P1), and a digital carrier admits restore. The paper shows that this prohibition does not close the question of distance but gives it a strict content. Matrices (the content of a subject) and the growth program of the graph are transmitted over a channel; the graph is grown on the spot — at the time of transfer or in advance. What arrives is not the same subject but a successor. The transfer error decomposes into the difference between the grown graphs, the reading error and the writing error; the graphs of source and receiver never coincide (P3), so there is no exact transfer even with ideal equipment, and the sign of the discrepancy is not fixed. Transfer is not restore; the source need not perish, and the chain of successors becomes a tree. Two modes of writing are discussed — by growth and by stimulation of connections grown in advance — together with the role of how full the receiver’s matrices are, and experimental analogies (Vetere et al., 2019; Pais-Vieira et al., 2013).