Consciousness and Teleportation

clearz · 2010-10-18 19:13:44

Something I've always wondered is what happens to someones consciousness if they where teleported. Take the first scenario. If I where teleported but the original copy of me was not destroyed in the process. I sit in a machine, somebody presses a button and out pops an identical quantum copy of me in the adjacent machine.…

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#32 01-02-2011 02:55PM

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What are the "actual pieces of you"? Considering your every molecular part is replaced every few years, what exaclty is "yours"?
If you accept that only the parts that are exaclty yours are just transported, what does that say about the other parts? How about the other bits that change? Are they not you? Where is the transition point?

I think that the pieces of 'I' are the alimentary canal, the blood circulatory system and all the structures that are nourished thereby, warts and all.

'I' am all the parts connected to my stomach.

It is interesting to note that the digestive system is the first set of structures to be formed in any animal's embryo.

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