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Originally posted by John Henry
I stole this...
You are going to be teleported to Mars. You will step into a scanner here on earth which will destroy your brain and body, while recording the exact states of all your cells. This information will then be transmitted to a replicator on Mars. Travelling at the speed of light, the message will take three minutes to reach its destination. The replicator will create, out of new matter, a brain and body exactly like yours. The person on Mars will look like you, think like you, in fact be indistinguishable from you. He or she will certainly feel as though they have merely fallen asleep on Earth and then woken up on Mars. This method is 100 per cent reliable.
Question is do you still exist?
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Oh, man! I've been thinking about this on and off as far back as I can remember.
I don't really have an answer. I suppose scientifically I believe that mind and body are the same thing, so if your body were copied, so too would be your mind.
Which raises the question: what if you could be cloned instantly? What happens to your consciousness?