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Transporters and the destruction of the self: What am I missing here?

In another thread about AI rights and sentience, a side conversation developed about storing people’s brains and downloading them into clones, or transporters. Now unwilling to hijack, we decided to agree to disagree about the point and let it die. However, The other poster posited that those opposed to transporter use, or biological storage and cloning do so because the new “you” really isn’t you. It was stated that this was simply something you got or didn’t and nary shall the twain meet. I’m …

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Willing to be teleported as in Star Trek? I'm not.

Would you be willing to be teleported? I couldn’t do it if it were around. In my mind it is killing oneself and a copy being made. I know it is fiction, but it terrifies me. I know, I know. It’s weird.

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Star Trek transporters

Why Star Trek transporter technology would never work in the real world or even in the Star Trek world: Let’s start off by thinking about the food replicator. The technology is similar to transporter technology. In the food replicator, matter in the form of atoms and molecules are rearranged using a pattern in order to produce an item of food. For example, if you say “ribeye steak,” the replicator will look in its memory banks for the pattern for “ribeye steak.” Then it will take the necessary …

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