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Ethics of Teleportation

I started thinking about how teleportation could possibly work. I could not fathom being able to teleport a whole human body through time and space, but I could fathom the idea of single atoms/particles. So basically what the machine would do is desintegrate your body, and then reconstruct it somewhere else. So if it's pretty much breaking down your body, would that kill you? Would you be dead? Would the "person" teleported just be someone else living with the other person's body parts? This is a statement I found in another forum after researching this after I thought about it. "You could claim that you are essentially vapourising someone and then recreating an exact clone of them a few seconds later in a different place." 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 So speaking of ethics, would this be ethical? Would creating a new body from the exact make-up of another human down to the very particles be ethical? I imagine this is in the same caliber of creating Frankenstein's monster where it's a living being living through other humans body parts. So would the new constructed body have a soul? This is blowing my mind. [b]Also, ignore the caption "Why teleportation is Evil" in the picture, that does not reflect my opinion of it, I just found that picture after researching what I had just thought about and it pretty much sums up what I was thinking.[/b]

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  • If memories are simply links in the brain, then why would they get lost during teleportation. The new 'clone' would be exactly the same, and that would include all of the neural links in the brain, therefore they would have exactly the same memories and their thought would seem to flow uninterrupted from the old original person. Essentially, what you're asking is do people have souls, that is, a non-physical part that would not get reconstructed after the teleportation. If people do have non-physical souls then the teleportaion would not work as the soul would not get copied. If people don't have souls then the teleportation should work fine. Judging by your last comment, you believe people have souls. In this case, if it is a supernatural aspect of the person then I can see no reason why it would be copied during the teleportation and so the new clone would not be 'you'.

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