Real life star trek in the making

[geoschmo]

Of course everyone has a soul. But to make a transporter work you simply have to configure it to also duplicate the persons soul exactly. With numerous and overlaping data parity checks it should be a simple matter really. I suppose maybe God could tell the difference, but we can always hack into His mainframe and reset the database that He uses to keep track of all that stuff. Being omiscient He may suspect something unusual is going on, but He won't be able to prove it.

EDIT: Of course as an alternative we could use the transporter for the body and send the soul modulated on a high power carrier wave. Then you have no ethical issues to deal with because you aren't duplicating the soul. And you would not have any problems with non-destoyed duplicate bodies laying around, because it would be quite obviouse to everyone they are just souless shells. But that would limit the range of the transporter somewhat.

Geoschmo

[ June 20, 2002, 15:52: Message edited by: geoschmo ]