(March 14, 2015 at 8:44 pm)Jenny A Wrote: This reminds me of an old argument. In Star Trek a transporter reduces people to atoms on the ship and reassembles them from atoms on a planet or elsewhere. The question is, were they really transported, or did the transporter kill one person on the ship and create an identical person on the planet. I'd argue the later. It's not immortality, just rebirth of a duplicate. And I'd no more step into the transporter room than allow myself to be killed to create a clone of myself.
They dealt with this in an episode of the next generation where they ended up with two Rikers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geMGo2P94j4
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