Teleportation

[bloodline]

Sorry to interrupt this witty exchange... But if you create a perfect copy of someone (on an atomic level, yes yes, I know Heir Heizenberg would complain!) then you destroy the original... what difference does it make?

For the original it would just be like going to sleep... for the copy it would just be like waking up. You could say that the copy wouldn't be the same conciousness as the original... But then I put it to you that the conciousness you experience today is not the same as yesterday, it is a new conciousness.

If you died in your sleep you'd never know about it. If you died in your sleep then you were replaced with a prefect copy, no one would know about it.

[bloodline]

CannonFodder wrote:

bloodline wrote:
Sorry to interrupt this witty exchange... But if you create a perfect copy of someone (on an atomic level, yes yes, I know Heir Heizenberg would complain!) then you destroy the original... what difference does it make?

For the original it would just be like going to sleep... for the copy it would just be like waking up. You could say that the copy wouldn't be the same conciousness as the original... But then I put it to you that the conciousness you experience today is not the same as yesterday, it is a new conciousness.

If you died in your sleep you'd never know about it. If you died in your sleep then you were replaced with a prefect copy, no one would know about it.

You make the assumption that the clone would have the memories of the original.

Of course it would, I implied that fact when I stated that the copy was identical on an atomic level.

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CannonFodder wrote:

Of course it would

I don't think the clone would have the memories of the original.

When someone gets physical brain damage to the bits of the brain that control memory function, is it the memory that is damaged or the method of memory recall that is damaged?

Yes, it's well documented that the person can still form and recall new memories...

Anyway, in a neural net the method of storage and recall is the same thing. Memory is stored in the structure of the network.