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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 6661867" data-attributes="member: 710"><p>I think our sense of self is a fascinating thing.</p><p></p><p>Naively, one might say that we want a sense of continuity. But... We don#t actually have that. When I sleep in at night and wake up, there is just time gone. I can't remember what happened, my continuity is broken.</p><p></p><p>Our bodies are not stable and always in the same state. We're living beings that constantly change.</p><p>Their state is constantly changing. What would make an error during a teleportation process different from a change in your state because you moved or inhaled some oxygen?</p><p></p><p>Basically, every nanosecond we experience some change. And yet, we still think we're the same person. Only sometimes, when we look back, we realized how we changed from what we once where, but still, we think we're us.</p><p></p><p></p><p>For Morrus scenario - if my copy winks back at me before I get annihilated, I have some severe doubts that it's me. It's another copy of me. I am about to be destroyed. I would say sucks to be me, but I am no more in a bit anyway. </p><p></p><p>I think I will not travel with MorrusPort.</p><p></p><p></p><p>When it comes to stuff like quantum entanglement/teleportation... maybe it's actually different. But then the "see my own copy" aspect can't happen, AFAIK.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>BTW; if we were theoretically able to entangle our bodies so we could "teleport", it might be very different from Trek teleporters. </p><p></p><p>Since you can't entangle at any distance, it might work by us stepping into the "entanglement machine" black box, and then stepping out. Inside that block box, there are entangled particles. That box will be transported to whereever we want to go, and when it's there, the parts can be "released". So basically, instead of sitting inside the plane, w would simply send two briefcases - one containing our stuff, and the other containing our quantum entangled particles that become us later. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>But I think the part where we step out of the machine is where the whole process is failing... If I understand QE correctly, if you collapse the wave function of one partner in an entanglement, you do so with the other. But I bet that if you step out f the box, you will under go a lot of wave function collapses, so it's not actually possibe to work that way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 6661867, member: 710"] I think our sense of self is a fascinating thing. Naively, one might say that we want a sense of continuity. But... We don#t actually have that. When I sleep in at night and wake up, there is just time gone. I can't remember what happened, my continuity is broken. Our bodies are not stable and always in the same state. We're living beings that constantly change. Their state is constantly changing. What would make an error during a teleportation process different from a change in your state because you moved or inhaled some oxygen? Basically, every nanosecond we experience some change. And yet, we still think we're the same person. Only sometimes, when we look back, we realized how we changed from what we once where, but still, we think we're us. For Morrus scenario - if my copy winks back at me before I get annihilated, I have some severe doubts that it's me. It's another copy of me. I am about to be destroyed. I would say sucks to be me, but I am no more in a bit anyway. I think I will not travel with MorrusPort. When it comes to stuff like quantum entanglement/teleportation... maybe it's actually different. But then the "see my own copy" aspect can't happen, AFAIK. BTW; if we were theoretically able to entangle our bodies so we could "teleport", it might be very different from Trek teleporters. Since you can't entangle at any distance, it might work by us stepping into the "entanglement machine" black box, and then stepping out. Inside that block box, there are entangled particles. That box will be transported to whereever we want to go, and when it's there, the parts can be "released". So basically, instead of sitting inside the plane, w would simply send two briefcases - one containing our stuff, and the other containing our quantum entangled particles that become us later. ;) But I think the part where we step out of the machine is where the whole process is failing... If I understand QE correctly, if you collapse the wave function of one partner in an entanglement, you do so with the other. But I bet that if you step out f the box, you will under go a lot of wave function collapses, so it's not actually possibe to work that way. [/QUOTE]
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