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Edited by ash:
1/18/2013 3:04:00 PM
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[quote]Here are some outcomes I figure would result from teleportation
- teleported body would be dead
- the body would be teleported so fast that your body is still living, but you would lose memory
- your brain/thoughts/memories would be restarted and your brain would be in an infant stage where you would need around 18 years to mature and learn to an adult level
-your "duplicate" thinks it's you and everybody else would think it's you but little do they know you're actually dead[/quote]
I don't think you understand teleportation.
The last bulletpoint is the most accurate one but the word "dead" becomes a little ambiguous when talking about atomically exact clones.
The copy would be exact. No memory loss. The copy would feel like they've been alive for years. Imagine teleporting a computer atom by atom. Would you expect all your files to be deleted? No. The same would be true of the human brain.
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That's implying that we'll get to the point where reconstructing bodies, atom by atom, will be flawless and near-instantaneous.
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Edited by ash: 1/18/2013 7:57:44 AMYou don't need to assume that it will one day be possible. This is just a thought experiment. Even if it was physically impossible, you could still ponder over the implications, and how it could change our world view of the "self".
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I see what you're doing, but that wasn't what this is necessarily about. The OP said themselves that they were pondering over the possibilities of the technology being imperfect, in the sense that your memories may not all make it to the destination if 'deconstructed.' But on your topic, I could see it being generally believed that the teleportees would be "new people." Do rich people with access to teleporters, these "newbies"; have the right to a proper life if they weren't born, but are mere shadows? This also depends on whether or not the atoms would be transported along some sort of system, or the teleporters would just have a stock of relevant atoms and molecules. Would be interesting to see a film of a culture battling these ethical questions.
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Of course I know little about teleportation. How many people are well versed in a technology that doesn't even exist yet. These are just my own thoughts, I guess I shouldn't have made a thread from pure speculation I guess.
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Teleportation does exist bro. Not on a human scale, but still...
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Teleportation is currently only possible at an atomic level and is called "quantom tunneling". Also, that first sentence in your post was quite rude, especially for a ninja.
