Would you use a teleporter?
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Only if it's the sort of teleporter that works by warping space and not by rearranging or energizing matter. Even a temporary halting of consciousness kills the subject. Of course, this fact is hard to demonstrate since a perfect teleporter would recreate a copy organism that would behave just as the original organism. Teleportation via warping space should be possible and easier than the other method and has the added benefit of not killing the teleportee.
No It isn't. You aren't creating life, merely "moving" it. You wouldn't be able to make a new person appear without the original template. Saying that teleportation is creating life is like me saying I created your post by quoting it.AccursedTheory said:
I'll just restate my earlier point - it's not about "soul", it's about the specific energy states and vectors of each of your molecules. If you take all the information about the arrangement of the particles in your body and use it to recreate the body in another place, you'll end up with just a dead corpse. Unless you come up with a teleporter which also records the energy states and vectors of each molecule and bestows them upon the substrate molecules at the destination - and does it in a fantastically short amount of time, because any error in relative vectors might have grave consequences - there's no way you can do it in a way you say it'd work.viking97 said:
And frankly, I don't think we'd ever reach the level of technology required for the sheer amount of processing power (EDIT: and energy!) needed for such a device to work.
Ah, and to finish off any "soul/non-soul" based arguments - the concept of soul as present in the Western culture posits that it is not a physical entity, and therefore you can just as successfully argue that it would "jump" from one body to another as that you would "sever its connection" to the body. So let's drop it.
Probably not because by my theory, your original gets destroyed, and a clone is made. I don't want to die! o0
Yeah, I devised that theory kinda myself but like 5 years ago... Seems that some people think alike o0.
HOLY CRAP.duchaked said:
Yeah, I devised that theory kinda myself but like 5 years ago... Seems that some people think alike o0.
As soon as it's safer and more convenient than the other options, I'm in.
Yay for the practical approach to life.
Yay for the practical approach to life.
i'd use it, but only if i was really really old, in case the whole deatomization thingy means dying and being created again
Yes, you are, because in the process of teleportation, you are typically rendered down into either data or molecular components, both of which would result in the destruction of your body, which would KILL YOU. That's first off.Ruffythepirate said:
Now, what is formed on the other end would basically be the same as you. It 'should' even have all your memories. But ultimately, anything formed on the other end would be dead, as there is no method of creating multicelllular 'life' today, or in the future. What would come out the other end would be you, but with no 'spark,' as they say. It would be a carbon copy of you, only dead.
And even assuming that they can breath life back into you, like some mythical golem... is it REALLY you? Remember, you were turned into atoms back there. Just because they reformed into an identical copy doesn't mean its YOU. At least not by my definition of self.
Haha, damn brilliant movie.The Real Sandman said:
Sure I would give using a teleporter a try, if I had seen someone else do it...and watched them for the next few years to see if they were ok...
Ah, but even if people did come out seeming perfectly fine, what if they were just copying the information of your atoms and reproducing it somewhere else? It'd be a perfect clone, but the original you (your consciousness right now) would be terminated. There'd be no difference to anyone else though.Death God said:
Warp some space for me please. I like my atoms set up the way they are.
But are you really you ten seconds from now? Or do you just constantly inherit memories from someone who just stopped existing, which creates an illusion of a continuous existence? You are in constant motion after all and you couldn't tell the difference if every molecule and atom in your body was changed right now.AccursedTheory said:
The only difference to teleportation would be that you'd never know you "died". How do you know that isn't already happening to you every second?
Alright, people... Just go read The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence Krauss. It'll solve most of your questions.