First successfull teleportation done!

[Jaakko]

I think I'll just take the bus, it'll be faster...

[Ethelred]

Originally posted by Lorizael
I have a pet duck.

One day someone sneaks into my house, kills my duck, and replaces it with a duck that looks exactly the one I had and has had its memories switched so it thinks it's my duck.

Would that be a DoppleDuck?

I don't know the difference. The duck doesn't know the difference.

But my poor dead duck up in duck heaven does.

You make two assumptions there. First of course you assume a soul. Second you assume the soul would not be transferred to the DoppleDuck.

And of course the Sisters of Saint Joseph assured me that my pet dog did not have a soul when I was in elementary school at St Maria Goretti. I was irked with this because I was sure that my dog deserved a soul just as much as I do. I still think this way except I personally don't think souls exist except as a product of wishfull thinking. I mention this because I am 100% certain that Siamese Cats have self-awareness at least to some extent. I am not so sure about dogs. They wouldn't slobber so much if they were self-aware.

No THREE assumptions. You also are assuming the given a soul and a heaven and no transfer of said soul to the DoppleDuck that dying is still a bad thing. Its only bad if you don't believe in a soul.

Which brings up an interesting thoological point. Will the Dopplegangers have new souls or will they be souless since you and Stefu are obviously assuming the soul would not be tranferred to the Doppleganger. If a new soul is generated just how long till we fill up heaven with Doppleganger souls since such a teleportion system could result in multiple souls being generated each day per soul producing body.

[Lorizael]

I've already said that I don't believe in a soul nor do I believe in an afterlife.

I'm merely trying to illustrate a point. What comes out of the teleporter (i know nothing "comes out") is a copy of you, not you. You are destroyed in the teleportation process. Why should your "soul," for lack of a better term, be transferred?

[Ethelred]

Originally posted by Lorizael
I've already said that I don't believe in a soul nor do I believe in an afterlife.

I'm merely trying to illustrate a point. What comes out of the teleporter (i know nothing "comes out") is a copy of you, not you. You are destroyed in the teleportation process. Why should your "soul," for lack of a better term, be transferred?

Because its the same exact thing as went in that comes out. The only reason for thinking other wise is the concept of a soul. One electron is not only much like another its EXACTLY like another except for position, velocity and spin and those are transfered in the teleport.

You are your brain and the memories in it. If its that is transferred to another place its still you no matter the method of transport. If copying were possible the issue would be rather bit less clear cut.


Besides my post was funny.

[Lorizael]

Yes... you're post was funny.

And you know, we're arguing about something that (A) will probably never be an issue in our lives (though I never thought I'd see teleportation of any kind) and (B) cannot be proven, because the only person that could possibily ever settle the debate would have to be quite irrevocably dead. Poor little duck. Stupid Doppleduck.

OT is so much fun.

Still not sure what I believe though. Because I do understand the idea that it is more than just a copy, it's the exact same thing somewhere else. Hmmmmmm.

[Ethelred]

Originally posted by Lorizael
Still not sure what I believe though. Because I do understand the idea that it is more than just a copy, it's the exact same thing somewhere else. Hmmmmmm.

Only because it was or is to be a quantum effect that it should be exact. This is not true for the techique in Star Trek which clearly has a disasembly and even a storage of some sort as it can take time to reasemble. Sometimes even decades as in the case of Scotty in one of the very few STNG episodes that I ever saw.

[Lorizael]

There is no storage of matter, just information. All the information of the subject being transported was recorded and if it was lost... so long for the person.

Well, you should watch TNG. Much better, in almost all respects, than TOS was. (IMO of course)

So many episodes based on transporter accidents... There's no wistful and content smiley.

[FrostyBoy]

So when will I be able to buy my first quantum computer? and how much will it cost?

[Solver]

Originally posted by Sn00py
So when will I be able to buy my first quantum computer? and how much will it cost?

From what I read & hear, in some 3-5 years, and it will cost much more than the best computer there exists now. Care to buy it for some 500 thousand USD, if it has a proccessor of 50 million GHz?

[The Rusty Gamer]

At least a 50 million GHz processor will finally get round that CTP2 delay bug when getting armies from goody huts!

[Solver]

LOL, probably it would.

[Kingpin]

This has to be one of the scariest scientific discoveries I have ever heard of.

Has anyone considered the weapons potential of teleportation? When has technology never been applied to weapons of war?

This is a very bad move. They should destroy all the labs and data and, perhaps, even the scientists involved in the project.

[Victor Galis]

but in reality one consciousness could have ended and another created... then again does it make a difference?

-It does to the original conscience. I won't use any of this teleportation stuff on myself even if they get it to work, but it would be nice to ship my luggage instantly instead of having my airline lose it.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Actually we could all beam ouselves up to the future, keep our body info stored in a PC, and restore when we get sick or too old for our liking.

Or even create a body for ourselves... whatever sutis you, but these are the possibilities in the future - anyway a mix of man and the machine.

[Solver]

Kingpin, that's just sick... people somehow have the tendency to fear discoveries... rubbish... you see, humans do already easily have the ability to destroy ALL the humankind, should there be a nuclear war.