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Teleportation — Fact and Fiction
jcatcw writes "Earlier this week actor Hayden Christensen, of Star Wars fame, and director Doug Liman discussed teleportation with MIT professors to compare the reality to the special effects version in the upcoming movie, Jumper. Edward Farhi, director of the Center for Theoretical Physics at MIT, said, 'It's a little less exotic than what you see in the movie. Teleportation has been done, moving a single proton over two miles. [But] teleporting a person? That is pretty far down the line. The quantum state of a living creature is pretty formidable. That is just not in the foreseeable future.'"
This article is a complete waste of time.
Continuity is an illusion, any way you look at it.
You're an idiot. You're not actually a stupid person, but what you think is. A copy of you is unrelated to you, and comparing that to cells dying to be replaced by others is an utterly stupid analogy.
Whether or not this particular mass of meat dies is of no concern to me.
You run on this "mass of meat", dumb ass. Kill this "mass of meat" and you die. It doesn't change a fucking thing whether you make a copy or not or even if you tamper with this copy in any way. When you migrate a VM you copy the data, the running state, then you shut down the original VM. In this case too, it doesn't matter whether or not you copied it, the thing is, it's gonna be shut down. How the fuck do you think it would work out if you had a copy and yourself and die? That suddenly as soon as you'd be dead you'd be aware of what your copy thinks and control it as if you incarnated it? Is some deity supposed to "transfer your soul" or even merge it with your copy? You need to explain to me how you conceptualise that in details, I haven't laughed enough for today yet.
You just got troll'd!