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Teleportation; What is Life
Topic Started: Apr 16 2007, 09:48 AM (254 Views)
TheEyebrow
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So imagine there was teleportation technology like the Star Trek's transporters. It reads your chemical makeup I suppose, deconstructs you, then reconstructs you with the same pattern somewhere else.

Now I suppose the logistics of this aren't completely impossible, it would just take such sophisticated memory storage and power it's far beyond our capabilities now. Yet were it possible, do you think the recreation would be you?

If you believe in a soul, I would imagine you'd say no. Sure you can reconstruct the atoms of a corpse, that's not that hard. But if you could somehow create a living human, would it be "you" suddenly standing on the other transporter pad, or would it be the equivalent of a clone, only with all the same memories as you? To everyone else he'd seem the same, but "you" would be lost forever.

Or do you think that whatever the essence of you is, is just an electrochemical combination and reproducing it WOULD be reproducing you? If that's possible, then if you created the transported copy without destroying the original, would you suddenly be in 2 places at once and in control of 2 bodies? Wwweeeiiirrrddd.
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If that's possible, then if you created the transported copy without destroying the original, would you suddenly be in 2 places at once and in control of 2 bodies?


Some law of some country saws matter can't be created or destroyed, butttttt I don't think you can be in two places at once. Someone would have to figure out how to transport your molecules through something like firewire or USB 2.0 (or maybe something faster than that) for it to work.

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I don't think it would be created or destroyed.

Energy and matter are one in the same, so I would imagine this teleporter would somehow read the pattern of every atom in your body, convert it into code and send this code somewhere else. This machine would then convert some source of energy (If you could convert your mass to energy and send that along with the code, you'd have the perfect amount). But energy's energy, you could harness enough from the Sun with the right instruments. So if you've got enough solar energy for all the matter of a human and can somehow code that energy to convert into a specific matter pattern, you could create an exact clone theoretically (I think)

So if that's true (and if not tell me) then, while it'd take enormous technological knowhow and the right instruments, then you should be able to duplicate something. If that were true, then either teleportation doesn't work this way, you'd be in the same place at once, or there's something that constitutes life which couldn't be converted in this way (i.e. a soul). Any ideas?
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Apr 16 2007, 01:07 PM
Some law of some country saws matter can't be created or destroyed

Law of Conservation of Matter: During an ordinary chemical change, there is no detectable increase or decrease in the quantity of matter.

The Law of Conservation of Energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but can change its form.

The total quantity of matter and energy available in the universe is a fixed amount and never any more or less.

(Credit: Lomonosov-Lavoisier Law)
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i'd teleport to amsterdam atleast 3 times a day
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The most popular name for children born in Amsterdam is Mohammed.
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