would a teleporter kill the real you?

[Zorba]

If it does Kill "You", no one, not even yourself, would ever know.

Exactly. It all comes down to what is consciousness and why are you conscious as you and no one/nothing else.

I believe it would create an exact copy of you, that was conscious and would think it was the same you. But the original consciousness would die.

I'm not religious, but for lack of a better word, I don't believe your "soul" would transfer.

 

[K1052]

With Star Trek's teleporter, you can make as many of "you" as you wish and at any time. It would be like the God Emperor ordering Duncan Idahos. Record companies could replace pop stars forever. Elvis died on the can? No problem, print out another copy on the teleporter. That other star wants more money? Hand him a red shirt and print out a copy from before he became difficult.

You can also de-age yourself with it and become functionally immortal.

 

[zinfamous]

Is it a teleporter or a replicator--or is it a teleporter only because it replicates?

The concern is if it is always replicating, and it's sort of random as to which you is reproduced, in which spot, you're going to have a nasty decision to make about what to do with the "copy" and the "original."

I've heard told that the easiest, and unpleasant solution to this problem is to stage a locking water tank by the input teleporter with a trap door, so that the cloned version that remains in place is immediately dispatched. Drown that sucker! It definitely sucks, though, when the drowned version is the you version, and those memories transfer. I imagine life gets pretty dark after you've experienced a couple dozen drownings.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

If the teleporter were made by GE Scientific then I'd say go ahead and use it. If on the other hand its made by CRISPR then I'd decline out of Fly fears.

 

[Captante]

i dont do this to be annoying

shens. 😉


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