"...Just the concept of literally getting sucked into your computer in the first place..."
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Well yes, I can see your point...and it is more applicable perhaps to you and I who believe that there is more to the individual than his physical and chemical components. But anyway I would guess that in the future there will be 'teleportation' of simpler things from one place to another, based on some kind of local destructive mapping and remote reconstruction. Some of the mappping is already being done in MRI technology. I wrote a short story involving such an experiment - I might seek your opinion on it one day.