You know those sci-fi teleporters like in Star Trek where you disappear from one location then instantaneously reappear in another location? Do you trust that they are safe to use?
To fully understand my question, you need to understand the safety concerns regarding teleporters as explained in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHBAdShgYI
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I wouldn’t, because the person that reappears aint me, its a fucking clone. Teleporters are murder machines. Star Trek is a silent massacre!
You’re assuming that souls exist. That may be a mistake.
Agreed. That’s my point. I don’t really know if we have a soul. If transporter technology existed and worked as theorized, then it would answer a bunch of questions that have been plaguing humanity.
If everything that I am can be duplicated by making a perfect copy of me atom for atom, then there is nothing to fear from transporter technology.
Souls are useless in any case.
If you’re satisfied that a perfect copy of you takes your place after your obliteration, sure.
I disagree, if your current consciousness is all a result of your brain’s functions then creating an exact copy somewhere else creates a second consciousness. It’s “You” in the sense that it believes it’s you, it behaves like you, and no one else would be able to see any difference because there wouldn’t be one. But it’s a new consciousness in a new brain.
The thing to fear then is what happens to that first original consciousness, that’s the “real” you.
Spiritualists think they are some timeless deity puppeteering their bodies like marionettes, afraid that using the transporter will cut the strings. More palatable to imagine the fleshbag collapsing on the floor without your control inputs than knowing you are the fleshbag…