My continuity of experience continues, therefore I'm still me. Yes I would use it. I don't care if I'm also the man in the box.
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
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Doesn't Star Trek's transporter solution involve converting your atomic structure to Energy, beaming that energy to another place, and reconstitution your body using the same atoms? If so, that's not really dying anymore. Just re-arranging your original atoms.
Isn't it still kind of the same thing though?
Star Trek calls that "matter stream" energy your "pattern". Pattern sounds a lot like Information. Data. Which is very easy to transmit and duplicate. Data can also be lost or corrupted.
So it's as if they convert all your atoms to a file, then FTP your file to somewhere else where the technology turns your pattern back into matter.
"You" can't exist as just data, so at that point you're already dead. I think...
There are episodes where your pattern is stuck in the pattern buffer. You're only information being stored at that point.
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Hell yes. Yes please. Please.
We've seen someone's POV going through a transporter. From your own perspective you would just see some glowy shit and appear at your destination. Of course, I would make an army of myself with another me in the transport buffer tweaked to retain the pattern for a long time. But instant transportation is invaluable.
Here's another great video on the transporter problem!
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If I were afraid to use the teleporter I’d be afraid to go to sleep. And I ain’t going there, so yes I would use the teleporter.
Also PSA for anyone using an iphone: it’s unaware of the word “teleporter” and will autocorrect it to teleported.
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As long as it us thoroughly tested and considered safe. I'm not going first.
I'm with old Dr. McCoy from that one TNG episode on this one. Not a chance.
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