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Would you use teleporter technology if it existed? Why or Why not? in c/[email protected]

[–] DJKJuicy 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

If you have no soul and you just exist as matter, then in a horrible transporter accident where your clone and your original still exist, now there are two of you. You are both you. There is no difference if you are both perfect copies of each other. 1=1.

Sounds like a win/win to me, finally a best friend who really gets me.

Would you use teleporter technology if it existed? Why or Why not? in c/[email protected]

[–] DJKJuicy 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Soul conceit" is the right term here. The belief humans can't seem to shake that I am more than just the sum of my parts.

I don't know if I have a soul or if my consciousness is really just electric meat. But it seems that if I am more than the sum of my parts, the soulless me that comes out the other side will just be "my parts" and will be obviously different than the original me.

If we really are just our atoms, and the technology can be trusted to reliably replicate me atom for atom on the other side then there's nothing to be afraid of. The original you hasn't died, it's just ceased to exist. No big deal. The clone of you is also you, so you still exist.

Would you use teleporter technology if it existed? Why or Why not? in c/[email protected]

[–] DJKJuicy 8 points 2 years ago

Oof...everybody being able to go to whatever the latest viral pool above a waterfall or cronut shop is all at once...

Would you use teleporter technology if it existed? Why or Why not? in c/[email protected]

[–] DJKJuicy 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Agreed. Fuck hormones. I'm over here trying to be logical, and my hormones are telling me other things.

Thank you, fellow human.

Would you use teleporter technology if it existed? Why or Why not? in c/[email protected]

[–] DJKJuicy 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

Fair question.

I'm assuming that if your soul really is "you" then a soulless clone of you that is identical to you down to every atom, but had no soul, would be bad.

I don't know if that means your soulless clone would just be an instinct driven animal, or maybe just an evil version of you that immediately grows a goatee. I don't know what function your soul actually performs. But at some point, maybe not immediately, a bunch of soulless clones walking around would be noticed.

Maybe? (Or maybe not?)

Would you use teleporter technology if it existed? Why or Why not? in c/[email protected]

[–] DJKJuicy 12 points 2 years ago (45 children)

Well, if the technology actually existed, it would solve that whole "soul" question.

We would know pretty quickly if we transported humans and they came out the other side as soulless aberrations because their original just got killed.

So yeah, I would 100% use it after it first proved once and for all that the sum of our consciousness really is all the synapses and signals and grey matter in our heads. Because if so then what does it matter if your original matter has been erased and then recreated. Your clone is just as much you as you are you at that point.