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franklin@lemmy.world 8 months agoIt’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?
pixeltree@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If you take the drive apart, ship its parts somewhere, and reassemble it, is it the same drive?
candybrie@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
pixeltree@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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
candybrie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Not same you. As soon as the same tech can be used to clone, it feels fundamentally different.