Whilst stuck in a traffic jam trying to get my overcrowed flight, my thoughts turned to the prospect of "teleportation".
Now I know something about it because I used to regularly watch Star trek. However it got me thinking.
Basically the principle is that you are split into individual atoms and then you get reconstructed at the other end, so do you die ? I mean a "being" would appear at the other end but it would be a new person, however this reconstituted person would assume that he had been successfully teleported, and would tell everyone that teleportation was perfectly safe, even though the orginal person had been killed.
Hmm ??
This got me thinking. So now lets say we replace one atom at a time. I think it is obvious that if an individual atom in the brain was replaced we wouldn't notice. Now if this process were to be repeated then we could replace all the atoms of the brain individually then the person wouldn't notice. Now instead of doing it one by one, we then replace them instantaneously, surely this is effectively the same thing. So surely following on with the logic you can reconstitute someone and its still the same person,a nd you could use different atoms.
hmm ??
...and (following on with this logic) supposing you were to put identical atoms together to make an identical copy, there would be two of you, which one would really be you ??. Supposing the teleporter created a copy.
Now I know something about it because I used to regularly watch Star trek. However it got me thinking.
Basically the principle is that you are split into individual atoms and then you get reconstructed at the other end, so do you die ? I mean a "being" would appear at the other end but it would be a new person, however this reconstituted person would assume that he had been successfully teleported, and would tell everyone that teleportation was perfectly safe, even though the orginal person had been killed.
Hmm ??
This got me thinking. So now lets say we replace one atom at a time. I think it is obvious that if an individual atom in the brain was replaced we wouldn't notice. Now if this process were to be repeated then we could replace all the atoms of the brain individually then the person wouldn't notice. Now instead of doing it one by one, we then replace them instantaneously, surely this is effectively the same thing. So surely following on with the logic you can reconstitute someone and its still the same person,a nd you could use different atoms.
hmm ??
...and (following on with this logic) supposing you were to put identical atoms together to make an identical copy, there would be two of you, which one would really be you ??. Supposing the teleporter created a copy.
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