Poll: Flying or Teleporting?
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No!dathwampeer said:
A copy is still nothing more than a copy, you would be dead and someone(thing) else would be running around with your memories, whether we're talking about a soul or not. Your consciousness would cease to be!
In the end, all that will remain of you is a pile of ash or vaporized molocoules while your clone runs around pretending to be you.
Flying would probably be a lot more fun, but I have to go with teleportation because of it being way more efficient.
Flying would be awesome, but teleporting allows for instant arrivals without being seen coming & makes for unseen getaways.
Been out drinking with your bowling buddies all night? Teleport in to the shower, then teleport somewhere hot & windy to dry off, then teleport right in to bed beside your sleeping wife...
The perfect cover up to a full night of responsible partying.
Not that I ever dreamed of that or anything.
Imagine grocery shopping? How easy would that be?
Been out drinking with your bowling buddies all night? Teleport in to the shower, then teleport somewhere hot & windy to dry off, then teleport right in to bed beside your sleeping wife...
The perfect cover up to a full night of responsible partying.
Not that I ever dreamed of that or anything.
Imagine grocery shopping? How easy would that be?
Yeah I never liked that idea. I mean, are you still you? Don't you die and then another copy of you is created. I mean, that person isn't you, it is someone who is for all intents and purposes you, but you died, from his perspective there is a continual line of memory from you to him but it wouldn't be you with the memory of being you. It's all rather disturbing if you ask me and things like that are some of those few things that really get under my skin.subject_87 said:
OT: Flying sounds sweet as. I mean, if I could teleport without the death-cloning, then I guess you might be be able to teleport high into sky and just before you hit the ground teleport back up but use weird portal mechanics to change the momentum to make you fly sideways then just keep teleporting to correct your path of momentum but if you did that you would only be able to accalerate sideways at the speed of gravity whereas if i can fly I'd just be '*poof* awaa[small]aaaaa[/small][sub]aaaaaaaaay[/sub].
So yeah, for fear of death I'd stick with flight.
Gotta stick with flight. Teleportation has the initial shock value of "oh, you're over there now." but flying is always cool if you want to show off, with or without wings.
Well if we're talking about implantation here, that's difference, I might go with that.dathwampeer said:
What I'm talking about is replication, that's why I keep using the word clone.
What defines me is my consciousness, not my memories, and even if it can be replicated, we're still talking about destroying the original.
It's like if I was to commit murder, but escape charges just because I just so happen to be a scientist that can clone that person just before I decided to stick a double barrel shotgun in his mouth, and pull the trigger.
Would I be undoing the crime I just committed? Food for thought.
Anyways, back to the whole soul thing. I don't exactly believe in a soul either, but I still wouldn't allow my conviction to end up being my undoing, especially in a matter like this...lol
Your argument seems to be based on the fact that memories = conciousness. Just because a copy of you has the same memories as you doesn't mean you're the same person. Imagine if you created a copy of yourself with all the same memories as you, but you didn't destroy the original. Do you think you would live two lives in one conciousness? Or would it just be two people sharing the same memories?dathwampeer said:
Of course, if you could just teleport by creating wormholes like you said, that'd be perfectly okay. I'll assume that's the case and vote teleporting.
