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n0oo7 t1_j1f7wcn wrote

Eh. There's a giant thought experiment whereas teleportation breaks the fundamental laws of physics, and thus we don't know if the person who comes out of the other end would be "you" or a "copy of you with your memories"

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AGhoulgoneTitan t1_j1f9qwv wrote

This what I have always talked about. What if a teleporter just disintegrates you and creates an exact copy on the other side. The second you would have all the memories you had right up till walking into the teleporter and so would believe it worked perfectly. While the original you would be dead.

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adi-C-1401 t1_j1fbfo1 wrote

But how would a biological copy be recreated, that too, at an instant? Like, even now, it takes a lot of effort to even recreate an exact cell.

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Ostrichman975 t1_j1fbi1d wrote

Kinda strange to think about… this seems to me to break the fundamentals of religious beliefs. If when I die, I go to heaven or hell…. What about my clone? If I murdered someone and end up going to hell, does my clone face the same judgement?

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drivealone t1_j1fbsnq wrote

Good thing those are not real concerns because once we start playing god there’s not much use for ancient gods

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Thin-Limit7697 t1_j1fbfn8 wrote

Not to mention the fact that if used on anything other than living beings, the "transport" part is pointless, only the "print" part matters.

Let's say you successfully teleport an orange once, disintegrating it in one side and rebuilding it on the other side. Since you already have the blueprint of an orange, why would you teleport any other orange? Just print again the orange you already teleported. As long as you have the required elements, you can always do that.

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Ok_Dog_4059 t1_j1fcbsk wrote

Now if we could do that why not put all those memories into a synthetic body and have a robot running around thinking it was us for the next 3 or 4 hundred years.

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cjc1983 t1_j1fccd1 wrote

Told my wife about this the other day...blew her mind...made her angry...apparently I've ruined star trek for her.

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AuburnElvis t1_j1fch69 wrote

That's disintegration teleportation, but wormhole teleportation doesn't create clones. It's always you stepping through the wormhole.

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hOprah_Winfree-carr t1_j1ffaeh wrote

It doesn't break any law of physics and that's not what's claimed in the video. The thought experiment is simply to demonstrate paradoxes in the classical notion of identity. The solution to this supposed conundrum is actually pretty simple; there isn't any essential "you" who has experiences. There's only experience itself, i.e. experience is the net result of being, not a thing that beings do. At the moment that two exact copies emerge from the transporter they cease to be exact copies, simply by virtue of the fact that they no longer occupy the same space. They're both equally "you" inasfar as a "you" exists, which is to say that it really doesn't, at least not in the sense of an essential being. The continual chain of cause and effect that thinks of itself as you is multiplied and split so that each chain is now separate, operating from two different perspectives at once. That situation is not essentially different than the situation of your experience existing alongside the experience of a person who's been separate from you their entire life, i.e. just another person.

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