death teleportation - Page 18

On August 05 2010 19:22 meegrean wrote:
i will never use a teleporter ever. good thing i probably won't see one in this lifetime. maybe future generations that can use this technology will be less religious.

On August 05 2010 18:49 BrogMaN wrote:No, absolutely would not even consider it ... Maybe if I was a religious type i would be willing but since i'm pretty atheist and don't really think anything happens after i die there's no way i would willingly kill my current body just to travel somewhere.

On April 14 2012 18:07 AegiS_ wrote:
people who say "absolutely not".. do you REALLY think you are special/ you have a soul? if so you're probably pretty ignorant and ignore modern science. we're just a bunch of atoms, that includes our brain which truely makes you, you.

quantum teleportation (the process in which the atoms/molecules in your body would get teleported) would teleport all of your atoms exactly to the other place. quantum entanglement is beyond "trustworthy" as it would transmit your atom's information to the destinations location with 100% precision. all of your brain signals, memories, etc exactly the same assuming the machine works properly. if it works? hell yeah i would do it. It would be like blinking, but when you open your eyes you are on the other side of the world.

and yes quantum teleportation/entanglement is a real thing and has been done with a Proton I believe.

So you ask, would you still be.. you? Absolutely and I wish the intelligent bunch of atoms that is myself came into existence.. 2000 years in the future so I could experience this.

On April 14 2012 18:07 AegiS_ wrote:
people who say "absolutely not".. do you REALLY think you are special/ you have a soul? if so you're probably pretty ignorant and ignore modern science. we're just a bunch of atoms, that includes our brain which truely makes you, you.

quantum teleportation (the process in which the atoms/molecules in your body would get teleported) would teleport all of your atoms exactly to the other place. quantum entanglement is beyond "trustworthy" as it would transmit your atom's information to the destinations location with 100% precision. all of your brain signals, memories, etc exactly the same assuming the machine works properly. if it works? hell yeah i would do it. It would be like blinking, but when you open your eyes you are on the other side of the world.

and yes quantum teleportation/entanglement is a real thing and has been done with a Proton I believe.

So you ask, would you still be.. you? Absolutely and I wish the intelligent bunch of atoms that is myself came into existence.. 2000 years in the future so I could experience this.

On April 14 2012 18:08 Angra wrote:


I think what gets confusing is like.. whatever there is after you die, let's just say it's blackness/nothing for all eternity for example. If you were to use the teleport, would you just experience blackness/nothing for all eternity and just an exact copy of you went on to live? If so, then I wouldn't do it because that would just suck, it has nothing to do with souls or anything of the sort. If none of that happened and you just blinked and would start experiencing your next body's life then yes, I'd be fine with doing it.

On April 14 2012 18:07 AegiS_ wrote:
people who say "absolutely not".. do you REALLY think you are special/ you have a soul? if so you're probably pretty ignorant and ignore modern science. we're just a bunch of atoms, that includes our brain which truely makes you, you.

quantum teleportation (the process in which the atoms/molecules in your body would get teleported) would teleport all of your atoms exactly to the other place. quantum entanglement is beyond "trustworthy" as it would transmit your atom's information to the destinations location with 100% precision. all of your brain signals, memories, etc exactly the same assuming the machine works properly. if it works? hell yeah i would do it. It would be like blinking, but when you open your eyes you are on the other side of the world.

and yes quantum teleportation/entanglement is a real thing and has been done with a Proton I believe. AFAIK it also destroys the original Atom, so this process is not "cloning". It's teleportation.

So you ask, would you still be.. you? Absolutely and I wish the intelligent bunch of atoms that is myself came into existence.. 2000 years in the future so I could experience this.

On August 05 2010 18:36 UniversalSnip wrote:
This is a common thing in science fiction where you are 'teleported' by a machine that kills you, then reconstructs an exact copy of your body and mind at another point. The question is

On April 14 2012 17:17 killa_robot wrote:


You're both; two halves to one whole. The "true" you is your mind, however your body hosts that mind. If your body is destroyed, then that mind is destroyed, and thus you are. It doesn't matter if the machine copies your mind and places it in a new body somewhere else, because your old body, and in extension your old/current mind, has already been destroyed.

Easiest way to realize this is to assume the following: your old body is not destroyed.

Nothing else changes, the machine still copies your mind into a new body and a new "you" is created. As a result, you'll each probably think you're the "real" you. However, the one that was copied is not you, they are a clone. You won't be simultaneously living your life through both bodies, so whoever is in the newly created body, is not "you".

Though only "you" would realize this. As for all intensive purposes, either version of you would be considered the real you by anyone else but you.

There was an interesting movie that played with the concept of cloning, and showed this quite well. In the movie they thought they achieved immortality, by cloning themselves and copying their mind into the new clones. Sadly I forget the name of it.

On April 14 2012 17:53 heishe wrote:


You would know the difference, since you're dead. Your life is at an end. From a neurological viewpoint, it would certainly be the same as having a normal death, since all your brain function seizes. Whatever is created on the other side isn't you, it's someone else. It could, in the very same way, create a completely different person on the other side of the teleportation device. It would make absolutely no difference for you.

Imo this is one of thousands of useless purely philosophical questions (pure philosophy rarely does something else than raise pointless questions), since they're easily answered using real facts (anybody who would use this device knowingly what it does would be a fool, or suicidal).