(March 14, 2015 at 11:28 pm)vorlon13 Wrote:There is a book that delves into the different aspects of "I". The book is "Is Data Human?". It deals with, can a robot really achieve awareness. Transporter technology and various other technology is discussed.(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.
There was an episode of the re-booted Outer Limits (mid 90s as I recall) that explored that idea more fully.
Interstellar travel is done via perfectly duplicating a person elsewhere and destroying the original that 'stayed home'.
It was a pretty chilling thing to contemplate.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
