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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 2187493" data-attributes="member: 99">I read through half this thread waiting to post that and I got beat on the last post! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I've been fascinated by the concept of Teleportation ever since I read Larry Niven's essay "The Theory and Practice of Teleportation" from his book All the Myriad Ways.  But the thing that really bakes my noodle about it is that in a lot of science fiction the whole "we scan you, beam the information and reconstitute you at the other end" explantion is offered.  As somebody mentioned upthread, that means they just killed you!If we buy into the notion that the position of every subatomic particle in your body is in precisely the same position AND that this fact means that all your memories and experiences are intact AND that your soul is not an issue then we're still left with the fact that the unique being that was YOU just got melted down.  Suddenly, a million miles away, this clone of you with all your memories and personality springs into being.  To the viewer, since this being acts in the exact way that you did, then the story can continue because that being will act as you would have acted and remember the things that you've done.  But that isn't YOU because YOU are dead!To quote Mr. Niven, "I dunno, but I wouldn't ride in the goddam thing."</blockquote>

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