Ok, lets say that teleporting machines have been invented and are a huge success. No longer will we waint in traffic or run the risk of being pulled over by the cops cause we were in a hurry. teleporting machines have replaced our countries form of transportation. You've been riding around in these machines for the past six months when a breaking news report hit the air ways on "how teleporting machines work." Well it turns out that they don't teleport anything. Instead they read all of your information (cellular chemical and brain synapse) and sends that information to another teleporting machine where your identical is created, and you are distroied. Now my question, would you continue to ride around in teleporting machines??
2006-07-06 04:20:10 · 14 answers · asked by Jimmy 4 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
The machine would copy everything about you including your thoughts and such. So in sense you (refering to you) are him/her (refering to your copy) and then you (refering to you) are distoried and him/her (refering to your copy which is also you) continues living as you (refering as you). so one would say you never did die, others may say differently. see thats the rub! so would you (refering to your copy which is you) continue to ride the machine??
2006-07-06 05:13:47 · update #1
Well, seeing as how the first time you entered a teleporting machine killed off the original, I would keep riding them, I mean really, what would be the difference of a copy of yourself?
2006-07-06 04:48:18 · answer #1 · answered by occasionallyrowdy 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't get it in the first time, much less for six months, without having an idea of how it worked first. If I knew that this was how it worked, I doubt I would use it as personal transport. It would more likely revolutionize the shipping industry (or eliminate it).
Then again, you have to consider that if you've built a teleportation machine, you have essentially created a "time" machine as well - and in the case of your hypothetical mechanism, an instant cloning device. What happens if you create a new copy on the other end and don't destroy the original? Can you send copies to multiple machines at once, creating multiple copies of whatever or whoever you put in the device? There are some reasons beyond simple transportation where I might be tempted to use one of these hypothetical machines, but if it was only for personal transport and worked in the manner you described - no thanks, I'll take the bus.
There are a number of sci-fi short stories and novels based on this premise. I remember reading one where a man was teleported in a machine that malfunctioned, and his original "copy" at the sending end was not destroyed, but his "copy" at the other end was already there. He was not aware at first that he had been succesffully teleported and the people on the space station where the sending device was located eventually had to push him out of the airlock to kill him in order for their to be only one copy of him in the universe.
2006-07-06 04:29:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't exactly understand - if you die so how is it that i'm riding in there for 6 months? I mean, I'm a soul and not only cellular chemical and brain synapses, so I think what you suggest is impossible - unless my soul also gets transported somehow... but it is an interesting idea. way to go.
2006-07-06 04:25:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, YEAH! If YOU already are cognizant of who you are, then your duplicate is YOU and you are not destoyed. So, your question really is moot. As you said, "you've been riding around in these machines for the past six months"
I can't WAIT for transporters to be up and working!
THEN the TIME machines!
2006-07-06 04:24:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a sense, we are always being "remade" because our cells are taking in new nutrients and replacing old cells, etc. As long as we retain our memories, we are who we are. I don't see any problem with using the teleporter.
2006-07-06 04:26:11 · answer #5 · answered by ebk1974 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i would as its important to keep the people employed in the teleporting industry with unemployment rates the way they will be
2006-07-06 04:27:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure why not. If my existance hadn't been altered by each new me. The old me could be used for organ donation and think of the environmental benefits.
2006-07-06 04:25:43 · answer #7 · answered by tana 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is to short . Let's have fun with the present moment .
2006-07-06 04:29:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Damnit Jim ... I don't cotton to having my blasted atoms all chopped up and shot around the galaxy.
2006-07-06 04:41:39 · answer #9 · answered by sam21462 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are destroyed, how would you continue to ride in them?
2006-07-06 04:23:37 · answer #10 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋