Your perception of you is that, just a perception. We give things a meaning and identity but it’s all in our minds, so the external world has nothing to do with the answer from a newtral point of view.
Curiously I was about to post the same video, mostly because of the reply from the poster DigitallyCrazy in the comments underneath (from this page
The Problem With Teleportation ).
A very succinct statement of the possibilities, I think; and my (even more abridged) version follows;
1/ yes
2/ no
3/ the question is academic.
Yeah, that physicist starts out okay, but then finished up poorly. I don’t understand why people have trouble with it, honestly. It matters to the person who is transported. If I am transported via non-quantum copy, and then the original destroyed, here is what I will experience: I go into the machine. I come back out. Then I am destroyed. Seeing as I don’t want to die, I thus will not want to be transported.
And, while I doubt it will help, I will give the short answer to Trinopus’s misunderstanding: the moment the copying process begins, the copy has different experiences than the original. So they are inherently no longer identical.
Well, thank you: saves me some time. (You didn’t exactly quote me correctly, but you’ve got the jist of it. Once one person walks out of the chamber and the other is being destroyed, they aren’t the same any longer.)
But why do you think this is a misunderstanding? It’s key to answering certain kinds of scenarios (such as the magic act where the duplicate is left to drown.)
Meh; this though experiment always ends up with someone being destroyed. For maximum utility you’d keep both copies.
Except that a universe full of copied personalities would be less diverse than one where everyone is different. If classical) (non-quantum) teleportation is ever developed, it should be used sparingly, in case we end up with a society of like-minded individuals.