Travel by deletion/duplication

bad beetz · #1 08-17-2005, 12:26 PM

Suppose there is a technology now available.

You can travel by beam. However, you are not disassembled and reassembled Start Trek style.

Instead, you are deleted and an exact loss less copy is reproduced in the desired location. Would you travel this way?

AndysDaddy · #2 08-17-2005, 01:40 PM

I've done you, haven't I?
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Wowbagger, the Infinitely Prolonged

Ezcheeze · #3 08-17-2005, 02:24 PM

Nope. The deletion is death and the copy is a seperate person. It might be ok for other poeple who knew me since the copy would be just like me, but I wouldn't be around to meet him.

snowden719 · #4 08-17-2005, 04:51 PM

I fail to see the relevant distinction between the two forms of teleportation, in both instances you are killed and exact replicatoin is created. PLease point out how deletoin and duplicatoin is meaningfully different from dissamble and the reassemble.

bad beetz · #5 08-17-2005, 05:08 PM

it's not. you're correct. There is no difference. Would you travel this way?

snowden719 · #6 08-17-2005, 05:09 PM

hell no

Piers · #7 08-17-2005, 05:34 PM

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Instead, you are deleted and an exact loss less copy is reproduced in the desired location.

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If there is a mistake, and I am accedently not delteted. What happens? Who will have leagal title to all my assets. Will the beam police be trying to kill me for the rest of my life. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

CCass · #8 08-17-2005, 06:01 PM

BONES - Go? Where are we going?

KIRK - (points to console) Where they went. Saavik.

BONES - But what if they went -- nowhere?

KIRK - Then this will be your big chance to get away from it all.

Jim T · #9 08-17-2005, 06:04 PM

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Instead, you are deleted and an exact loss less copy is reproduced in the desired location.

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If there is a mistake, and I am accedently not delteted. What happens? Who will have leagal title to all my assets. Will the beam police be trying to kill me for the rest of my life. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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Plus, what if an insect flies into the teleportation chamber? It gets real ugly.

jman220 · #10 08-17-2005, 10:37 PM

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it's not. you're correct. There is no difference. Would you travel this way?

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I see a difference. Lets use this as an example. You are clinically braindead for 5 minutes. Then you are resuscitated. Is it still you? How is this different from the dis-assemble/re-assemble? However the delete/copy, is not you.