noahfor

No, I would not use it. I have thought about it before. Let's say they take the blue print and send it to the other machine and make 2 of you. Which one is the real you. They both seem like you. They are both identical to you before you went through, right down to the atom, but you can't possibly be in 2 bodies at once, so one must not be holding your consciousness, and if one isn't then both can not be, and if both can not be then there is no reason to think that any time you use it the person that pops out is you.

If they are exactly the same then why is your consciousness lost? I don't know. All atoms are the same anyway so it really wouldn't matter if it was your atoms or new atoms, so I think you'd be lost if you used the mark 1 also. My theory is that once consciousness is lost, when it goes back online it is a different consciousness, so everytime a person goes to sleep and wakes up they are a different consciousness with the illusion that they have been alive a whole life. I don't really know how to back this up.