Thread: Teleportation
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Old 12-09-2003, 06:57 PM   #21 (permalink)
Nefir
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You will not exist. You will be dead. The moment your body is broken down into atoms, whatever is supposed to happen after death is what you will experience, just as if you were to get hit by a truck, or fall out of a tall building.

A copy of you will be created, who will feel as if nothing changed. This copy will pretty much BE you, in every respect - except that YOU are dead, and the copy is not.

Here's a pretty good (IMHO) argument against continuity of consciousness: What if the teleporter was set to "read-only" mode, as in it reads in your atoms, but doesn't actually destroy them? A perfect clone would be recreated. Is that clone you? What if someone then takes a gun and shoots the real you. Has the clone become any more you? Obviously the answer is no.
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