Assume the technology dematerializes you, sends information to another location, and then you are reconstructed exactly the same - to the last atom - including all memories. Would you be happy to transport?
Is your answer the same if there is a slight delay between the copy being created and you being dematerialized. So you see your copy appear on the other side of the room, and then you are dematerialized?
For me, I can't help but view it as death. I've been disintegrated, and a clone of me is walking around in my place. It thinks it's me, but it's mistaken; it's a clone of me. And it's so good that nobody else can distinguish. Except I got disintegrated, and that's a copy of me.
That clone, though, in scenario #2 where a slight delay means it sees me in the original transporter booth just before I dematerialize, would know it's the copy. It would know that because it is standing in the destination booth and it's looking at me in the origin booth. In that case, the copy must feel weird knowing that it's a 5-second old copy of me, and that I'm dead.
What about you? It's an old debate, but I always enjoy it!
[video=youtube;pdxucpPq6Lc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdxucpPq6Lc[/video]
Is your answer the same if there is a slight delay between the copy being created and you being dematerialized. So you see your copy appear on the other side of the room, and then you are dematerialized?
For me, I can't help but view it as death. I've been disintegrated, and a clone of me is walking around in my place. It thinks it's me, but it's mistaken; it's a clone of me. And it's so good that nobody else can distinguish. Except I got disintegrated, and that's a copy of me.
That clone, though, in scenario #2 where a slight delay means it sees me in the original transporter booth just before I dematerialize, would know it's the copy. It would know that because it is standing in the destination booth and it's looking at me in the origin booth. In that case, the copy must feel weird knowing that it's a 5-second old copy of me, and that I'm dead.
What about you? It's an old debate, but I always enjoy it!
[video=youtube;pdxucpPq6Lc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdxucpPq6Lc[/video]
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