Shatbat wrote:
Jory wrote:
You basically have to destroy a person in Location A after uploading their molecular data to a computer, then use that data to reconstruct the person entirely in Location B. Aside from technology and logistics issues, this brings up several philosophical questions. Is the reconstructed person in Location B really the same person? Can your consciousness live in the computer while uploaded? And what about the fact that you could hypothetically use this technology to make endless clones of yourself?
That sums up my main concerns, I'd never use such an apparatus if it became available. And assuming consciousness was kept, which I doubt, making more copies is perfectly possible if the data is kept, so what would happen there? Why would my consciousness transmit to only the first copy and not to the other ones? Or would we all share one? Consciousness not being kept is the more elegant solution.
Gateways look like a more interesting concept. But I don't think I'll see working teleportation technology within my lifetime
Yes.
you're not really 'transporting yourself". You would actually be "faxing" yourself.
But the process would probably require the original to get destroyed- because they would have to take you apart in order to duplicate each part of you in three D.
So the copy that gets teleported to the starship enterprise, or wherever, might be a sentient being, but it wouldnt be YOU (even if it had all of your memories). It would be like a child cloned from you.
And who hasnt pushed the wrong button at Kinkos?
What if they accidently made forty copies of you?
Boggles the mind.
29 Jul 2013, 6:37 pm
god i hate that movie
