Comment Tranporting a soul? (Score 1) 71
I always wondered about transporters...
Suppose that the transporter never really transported the original; but destroyed it and synthesized an exact copy on the other end.
There would be no way to detect this. But if you were transported, "you" would die and your exact twin sister would materialize with all your memories, etc.
Like a Turing Test, there would be no way to detect from outside that the copy wasn't in fact you. How would we ever know? Only those that died would know that they didn't live, but their copies wouldn't.
So I guess I'm not getting transported anytime soon.
- K-ster
Suppose that the transporter never really transported the original; but destroyed it and synthesized an exact copy on the other end.
There would be no way to detect this. But if you were transported, "you" would die and your exact twin sister would materialize with all your memories, etc.
Like a Turing Test, there would be no way to detect from outside that the copy wasn't in fact you. How would we ever know? Only those that died would know that they didn't live, but their copies wouldn't.
So I guess I'm not getting transported anytime soon.
- K-ster
