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Dr_Box@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Its the same problem with teleportation. If you are disentegrated in one spot and then completely reformed out of new particles in another spot to the new version of you there would be continuity but the old version would have basically died
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Its the same problem with teleportation. If you are disentegrated in one spot and then completely reformed out of new particles in another spot to the new version
But Scotty’s Beamer wasn’t a real transporter. It consisted of a scanner (not a disintegrator!) and a creator. If it had been constructed just a little differently, it would have copied you again and again…
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 5 days ago
In many fictional universes, they do move your particles from one spot to the next, though. And even if you want to think of it as a new entity, it’s a 1:1 copy including the body, which is IMO a critical difference to recreating a human brain in digital space.
14th_cylon@lemm.ee 5 days ago
I’ll just leave this here… One of the best outer limits episode, imho. m.imdb.com/title/tt0667991/
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
YOU MUST BALANCE THE EQUATION!!!