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Old June 21st, 2002, 01:42 AM

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Default Re: Real life star trek in the making

And the philosophical question would be "Will I keep my own consciousness after being transported?"

Since every atom gets identically duplicated, I would expect the person having been transported to say "Sure, I feel exactly the same"

But the question would still be, "Would I still be me? or would I die to let someone identical to me with my experiences live? is there a soul?"

And ofcourse the next and even more interesting possiblity would be the hacked transporter machines that didn't destroy the original, instead duplicating a person (I can see many evil uses of this possibility)

EDIT: or did the original have to be destroyed to transport?

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[ June 20, 2002, 12:44: Message edited by: AeoN2 ]
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