Teleporter Questions

[Nat Turner]

Ok, say you have a Star Trek teleporter. When you enter the teleporter, it disintegrates your body and creates an exact copy of you in another location. Do you die with a new person made, or does your life continue?

Now say you have a crappier teleporter where all the matter in your body is taken apart, is brought to that location really fast, and is reconstructed to be the exact you again. Did you die with a new person made, or does your life continue?

Is there a difference between the end result of the two methods?

What if the brain of the reconstructed body is 99% a copy of you? 75%, 50%? Is it still the same you, alive again?

 

[short recoil]

Your body would continue to "function" therefore you are alive whilst functioning.
In theory if you are taken apart you are dead for a while and then alive again.
Your brain would feel like nothing happened if recreated exactly.
I'd hate to see a teleporter go wrong, lol....minced beef comes to mind.

This way you can see that "life" is mearly just a state of reactions of our organism.

 

[Bait]

The answer is yes to every question.

 

[Raziaar]

The correct answer, is that there is no such thing as a teleporter that can actually transport human beings, so the answer is yet unknown. Heh.

 

[clarky003]

actually in real physic's theory its more like this...

the actual idea involves kaluza kliens 5D vacuum space time geometry (3D = universe 4D = universe + time 5D = universe + vacuum space time, ie dynamic virtual vacuum state), it also relies on us finding out the fundementals on the control level of matter and finding that mechanisim and being able change/manipulate it. The principal in 5D doesnt take you apart literally, it dematerialises you (phases you out of visual and physical perception), changing your vibrational relationship with the surrounding universe then using the natural casmir principal you would be transported in that lower vibrational state allowing your energetic makeup to pass through any object and then rephase you when youve been moved into position. resulting in the apparent dissapearance and reapearance of you from one local to another,

 

[Direwolf]

For that matter, why do they have to break down your body to reconstruct you? Why not just make another you?

 

[clarky003]

read about the philadelphia experiment.

 

[Direwolf]

I think we're talking about this more in a philosophical context, rather than a scientific one.

 

[Dog--]

If Willy Wonka has taught me anything it would be science.

(ORIGINAL WILLY WONKA MOVIE)

When the kid gets shrunk to the candy bar size, he gets broken up into atoms, then reconstructed as himself, except smaller, thats the way they should do it.

 

[Greatgat]

Well, I think that if your conciousness is pre-empted then restarted, you would have no conception of any discontinuity. If your mind and memories are copied exactly in one place and destroyed in the original, then conciousness survives and life goes on. I do tend to believe that life depends on your perceptions of it, and not so much the reality that exists.

If your perceptions and experiences, for example, could be moved into someone else's form, which would be more real? The body that the "you" that is "you" inhabits, or the "you" itself? What would happen if the new "you" you inhabit still retained some habits and memories of the one before you came? Would you think that those new experiences would jar with the "you" that is now there, or would you just assume without ever knowing there was ever any difference?

Is a blank slate created ever by said teleportation ever really clean, or are is there something already there that you inhabit and are never going to know that anything has changed?

 

[Qonfused]

The answer is yes to every question.

Can I **** you in the ass with a bowling ball?

 

[CyberPitz]

Can I **** you in the ass with a bowling ball?

Don't waste such great pleasure on him..I'm ripe for the picking!

 

[Greatgat]

Don't waste such great pleasure on him..I'm ripe for the picking!

And to all somewhat serious threads...

Sigh...

 

[sinkoman]

read about the philadelphia experiment.

Oh my god dude, don't bring that up.

That's complete bullshit.

 

[Jintor]

Yes, but it's hilareous bullshit

 

[Dekstar]

actually in real physic's theory its more like this...

the actual idea involves kaluza kliens 5D vacuum space time geometry (3D = universe 4D = universe + time 5D = universe + vacuum space time, ie dynamic virtual vacuum state), it also relies on us finding out the fundementals on the control level of matter and finding that mechanisim and being able change/manipulate it. The principal in 5D doesnt take you apart literally, it dematerialises you (phases you out of visual and physical perception), changing your vibrational relationship with the surrounding universe then using the natural casmir principal you would be transported in that lower vibrational state allowing your energetic makeup to pass through any object and then rephase you when youve been moved into position. resulting in the apparent dissapearance and reapearance of you from one local to another,

I have no idea how, but that made perfect sense o.o

I also agree with SR. Technically there's nothing that differentiates us from animals except that we THINK that the pulses in our brain ar actually a conscience. We just happen to have a sub-brain which does background proccesing of tasks. Our conscience is just the mingling of pulses that goes on between the lower and higher brain.

 

[Solaris]

I've actually seen a teleportation lab at the open university.

 

[short recoil]

I've actually seen a teleportation lab at the open university.

Yeah, as in like 1 atom.

Oh noes they beamed aboard 5 helium atoms!!!!!

 

[Sulkdodds]

I think it quite interesting that within the next century we could have 'nanofax' - that is, the scanning of an object and its subsequent re-construction by nanomachine assemblers at a second terminal. In this way you'd literally get an exact copy of the object and still have the original. Which is crazy shit, yo. If we ever work out a way to pipe over a human mind, then that's a viable method of teleportation/body switching right there.

As far as I can see, by the time we actually have the ability to teleport large objects, the advances in nanotechnology and computer systems will have negated the benefits.

 

[ríomhaire]

lol....minced beef comes to mind.

Not realy, not sold at all, not even a gas. Just stray moelcules *shudder*