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Is Star Trek’s Warp Drive Possible?
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Not even close to the same thing. If you create an exact copy of me at a destination, that doesn't make me okay with being disintegrated because another me is at the other end.
are you ok with closing your eyes when you go to sleep? how do you know you weren't replaced during sleep? 😆
Are you suggesting my consciousness can be transferred to another body? Do you think that if an exact copy of you were made in another place, that shooting the first version of you in the face would cause you to suddenly wake up in the other body? I'm not understanding how you think this works.
that makes two of us, i am not really sure what you are trying to say.
your "consciousness" is just a result of biochemical processes in your brain. if you have the ability to create a copy of your body on a molecular level, then that new copy has your consciousnes, your memories, it is you. so if you create new copy and don't destroy the old one, there are now two of you. if you destroy the original, then there is only one of you, possibly in different location.
from the point of view of your copy, it is no different than you going to sleep and then waking up. you have no idea what was going on with your body during the sleep. you simply accept all the memories you have as yours and move on with your day.
"from the point of view of your copy"
This is the problem, the point of view for the original is death. I am dead.
the original pressumably didn't experience any gruesome death, no one is shooting it in the face. you just closed your eyes and then opened them at new location. what is the difference from going to sleep and then waking up?
For the one in the new location its just that, but the person being "teleported" just ceases to be.
no, that person continues to be in the new location