RE: hypothetical #3 -Star Trek transporter
March 27, 2018 at 10:31 am
(This post was last modified: March 27, 2018 at 10:31 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
I voted no because I am naturally distrustful of technology. But on thinking about it, yeah, so if I technically die because my stream of consciousness has been interrupted then it's no different to being under anesthetic. After all, we're all just persistent patterns and it's an evolved instinct to be afraid of death, which I'm not really afraid of anyway. If there was a transporter accident and I got duplicated both copies would still be me but what being me meant would then start to diverge from that point onwards. Hmm, I could possibly be tempted. Maybe during one of my more nihilistic phases ...