• Franklin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s just a more complicated example of the ship of Theseus, and honestly it comes down to if you believe in the concept of a soul.

    To illustrate mechanically is a computer with the same model of hard drive with a copy of the data the same?

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      1 year ago

      If you take the drive apart, ship its parts somewhere, and reassemble it, is it the same drive?

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        1 year ago

        Yes. But that’s not what’s happening in teleportation. It doesn’t use the same parts, but different ones arranged in the exact same way.

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          Depends on the teleportation system. In star trek you are comprised of the same physical material, just converted to energy and back. I could be wrong though, I’m no expert. I think a more interesting question is, would you be more ok being killed in one place, having your body be transported mundanely and being revived at your destination, or being cloned perfectly and then having the original killed? Theoretically the same to you either way

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            1 year ago

            Not the same to you. As soon as the same tech can be used to clone, it feels fundamentally different.

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              You die in one place, and a consciousness that thinks it’s you starts in another place. Does the order really matter?

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                Yes. Doing it in a different order means there’s a version of me with different experiences. But even if you do it in the same order, that it can be used to clone means there is a me that dies and doesn’t come back to life. Whereas if it can’t be cloning, then it’s just me.