Teleportation is the creation of an identical person, only in a different place. Not only is the following likely to be the case:
That's a good point. But wouldn't knowing you were a copy, not the original, ultimately change the memories. What you know of as false, you tend to discard.
You will also immediately undergo change from the different environment around you. So you will start with a different mentality than the original, if even slightly, and the original will be gone. Abolished. It can never experience or think these things.
With the right mental conditioning, you could make yourself the exact same...but the point is that, were the original to survive, it would almost instantaneously be different from the new creation.
And more ninjas. Huzzah, less weird ones!
As for the original concept, in which the original copy is destroyed, that essentially kills you and leaves a copy. A computer harddrive with the same data on it may function the same, but the two separate harddrives are still that-separate.
Nobody cares whether they are separate or not, as long as they do the same thing. Your definition of "original" is hence perfectly useless, which means that you will never be able to derive any meaningful statements using that definition.
I love it when things are perfectly useless. Such perfection with no function!
But nah, of course they do. When things are separate, they go through separate things. A hard drive may start with the same stuff won't end with it. A human teleported and destroyed will experience different things than their original would have done.
That's because things are defined by their surroundings.
Let's take a mental experiment: take a random person, make an exact copy ofthat person and then put them both through the exactly same physical experiences (down to a quantum level; yes, this is impossible in reality, but - thought experiment). Will they end up different, or the same?
Different. Every decision a human makes is almost random, based around some natural/imposed restrictions. There are a variety of viable options that exist within a given situation which could equally be chosen. For example, one could check the window, the other the door.
As for the original concept, in which the original copy is destroyed, that essentially kills you and leaves a copy. A computer harddrive with the same data on it may function the same, but the two separate harddrives are still that-separate.
Nobody cares whether they are separate or not, as long as they do the same thing. Your definition of "original" is hence perfectly useless, which means that you will never be able to derive any meaningful statements using that definition.
I love it when things are perfectly useless. Such perfection with no function!
But nah, of course they do. When things are separate, they go through separate things. A hard drive may start with the same stuff won't end with it. A human teleported and destroyed will experience different things than their original would have done.
I see, so your definition of "original" actually means "the version that stays in the same place as before it was copied". My mistake, that does have some uses. But now tell me, sir, are there any objective context-free benefits that being the "original" gives you (except possibly a lack of existential angst)?
No. Just like there are no real benefits to being a different person entirely, e.g. if you took some DNA and created a new person from the original. They would have no benefit over the original. We're not arguing benefit, really, just that they would in effect be different people, albeit very slightly at first.
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