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If teleportation became available, would you use it? Anonymous 03/30/26(Mon)14:34:17 No.16937762 [Reply]▶
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>>16937762
No. You would have to believe that your conscious experience survives the atomic disassembly of your entire body which I personally doubt. I would most likely experience ego death when I enter the teleporter and someone else with my body and my memories would emerge out of it.
Is it even possible to transport and then reassemble all the atoms perfectly so that your physical body consists of all the same atoms that entered into the teleporter? I doubt it. Otherwise it just becomes cloning rather than teleportation.
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>>16937863
The words on their own worked fine in that context but some pedantic probably would have indeed played the "gotcha" card by insisting there's only one possible definition for ego death.
>>16937861
What if instead of being transported, all of your event memories are erased? You still retain basic stuff like how to dress yourself, use the toilet, and other simple life skills but you lose all knowledge of the events of your life. Are you still the same you?
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>>16937876
So in your scenario the teleporter malfunctions and it fucks with the memory encoding process of your brain? Hard to say. To other people you are a different person at that point for sure, but if your physical body didn't experience sudden atomical destruction then I guess from your own experience you would still be "you" as in your qualia persists, except with irreversible amnesia.
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>>16937762
If you showed me it, and someone I knew, like a friend of mine or family member, say, my mother, goes through, and she comes out the other end fine, like, if I was a toddler watching this
then of course I'd use it
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>>16937842
just came to say this. if you rip up my atoms and reassemble them somewhere else, I died and that's a clone
I will never use the teleporter, I'll be taking the shuttle to the surface or other ship like bones. he was a doctor and knew what was up.
in a way I could see a possible future civilization not caring about death. imagine if we find out one day that infinite multiple universes exist and reincarnation is real. people might not worry about dying over and over again each time they teleport
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>>16938031
How would you even prove reincarnation is real? Dont you basically just get memory wiped and put into a new body ? Seems a bit pointless unless you at least had an inkling of previous lives and you could try life again with similar interests
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>>16937885
Same molecules, just loss of all memory and personality other than basic functioning. No teleport needed.
It comes to mind because there was an episode of Babylon 5 where a serial killer has his brain wiped of memories and he starts a new life as a monk. Society sees it as a humane alternative to the death penalty but since the essence of who that person was is destroyed, is it really better? The physical body does remain while the mind does not. Almost the opposite of the teleport device, where the mind continues on but the body is a replaced.
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>>16938169
Your entire body experiences a ship of Theseus scenario as you age but the process is extremely gradual over your life time. It doesn't happen suddenly by atomizing you and then putting the pieces back together somewhere else.
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>>16937762
Physically transporting a body through gravity bending from a ship in space would interfere with the body's electrical signals; they might need to be resuscitated. But the energy expenditure would be more than a shuttle. I can't believe I knew they figured out gravity in the future and could use it. No wonder they send a ship out and annoy some local life.
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>>16937842
Even ignoring this obvious problem, what if the person getting out won't even be you anymore?
What is you? Where does your personality, identity, psyche, id, your memories physically reside? And what if >you are greater than the sum of all these parts?
You can theoretically copy the position of all atoms, you cannot do the same with electrons. What if soul is in the spin?
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>>16942538
The markets would adjust quickly and the burst of the housing bubble will be overwhelmed by the growth of the teleportation bubble and only people who deserve to be left behind will be left behind. I don't know why you smart people are so scared of game changers when you should easily be able to adjust to the change if it weren't for stubbornness.
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I'd say no, but unlike most people my answer has nothing to do with a soul or sense of continuity/consciousness.
My self is defined as the entire biological organism. In order to transport it using any teleportation technology I can imagine, you'd need to digitize it. This process is necessarily lossy, and therefore the result would not be a perfect replica, merely a very good facsimile. Accepting death like that is contrary to my goals and morals, so I'd reject it.
There are a few exceptions worth considering. The first is the discrete universe, in which the data that completely details me is finite, and thus the digitization isn't lossy but actually perfect. In this case, if I was trusting enough of both the physics of the discretization, the teleporter, and the operators, I've no objection to the transportation.
The other is a teleporter which doesn't involve a scan->destroy->send->reconstruct workflow. If instead it was a wormhole generator or something that maintained the integrity of my self, I have no objection.
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>>16943593
Meaningless gibberish. Hilarious how anyone can look at this shit and believe real humans are writing that garbage.
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>Using the teleporter kills you and sends your soul to the afterlife, a clone takes your place
>But from an outside perspective the teleported you acts identical to how you originally were
So what is it exactly that the soul does if there's no noticeable difference with or without it?
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>>16945603
Soul? This is /sci/, not /x/ lol
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>>16943035
There is no lossless identity in any point in time, for both the body or the mind. There is always a state changes within the body between time period 1 and time period 2, at plank time scale. The same goes for your mind where the mind is always changing, so its ALWAYS lossy.
A body/mind that is not lossy cannot change, cannot move, cannot do anything.
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>>16945739
Do you have a single shred of evidence to back that up?
As I mentioned in the discrete universe exception, I'd change my mind if that were the case. But a function that's fully injective mapping from a continuous domain to a continuous codomain is not inherently lossy. Given our current understanding of QM, the time propagation operator fits this description.
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>>16945891
Irrelevant; it's the loss of information that I resent.
A shift in time isn't more inherently lossy than a translation in position. What matters is the discretization versus continuum. In the latter, it is necessarily lossy, but in the former, it is not.
Consider the humble doubling sequence [math]n_k=2n_{k-1}[/math] for [math]n_k\in\mathbb N[/math]. Given any [math]n_k[/math], you instantly know the entire sequence. If we assign the index within the sequence ([math]_k[/math]) as time, then you "change" as you go through it. But there is no loss of information, the entire sequence is preserved.
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>>16945986
If you eat, breathe, shit, sleep, think, talk, write, those create lossy states. Burning of the calories is a lossy action state. Information state is lost upon change from one state to another a human body. The state change is slow for some non-reactive elements and we dont know if there are any non-lossy particles in the universe at all even at their base state.
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>>16946001
Lossy is lossy. You lose cells, you lose information. The fundamental being changes, one bit at a time, to millions/billions of information states each breathing period. The trillions of microns eat/poop inside the body also shift as you're going along your daily life. The entire biome mass goes through multiple generations each day.
If we're classifying human body as the whole of the body, then the whole of the body is constantly is cycle of birth and death inside the body.
And for thoughts and minds, the conscious mind forgets 99.99% of the daily information and only keeps a low resolution snapshot of memory daily that is extremely shoddy and blurry.
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>>16937762
Only if it's real teleportation which means that no space is traversed at all. Decomposition and reconstruction of your body is not really necessary when you can simply connect two points of space directly. Basically a portal that reduces the distance between two points to zero.
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>>16937842
Based understander.
Drives me nuts when people talk about achieving immortality through creating a clone of themselves with all of their memories, or uploading their mind into a computer. The copy isn't you, it's just a copy. The "you" that is experiencing things ceases to exist and doesn't experience anything through the copy
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>>16942688
>so what then
There's a skeleton inside us.
The big thing about teleportation is a transfer of consciousness into a new body, and my memories confirm I haven't been ripped from my bones yet.
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>>16959242
Yes, but only because sleep doesn't turn "you" off all the way. For example, if someone shot a gun outside your house you'd still wake up, same for if someone calls your name loudly.
There's a level of awareness that still exists, it's just not accessible by your consciousness.
Chemically induced comas (like for surgery) are arguably as bad as teleportation. But most people are hypocrites and don't consider that kind of thing.
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>>16937762
If teleportation worked like it does in the movies, it literally causes less interruption of consciousness continuity than being anesthetized for a surgery or bonked on the head and suffering a moderate concussion.
Or than taking a nap.