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Thursday, November 08, 2007

Teleportation anyone??

Teleportation is the movement of objects or elementary particles from one place to another, more or less instantaneously, without traveling through space. Basically if you want to teleport an object from point A to point B, you record information at point A send that information to point B and recreate it there. If you dont want duplicates you destroy the original at point A.


Now, would you teleport yourself? knowing that you are being destroyed at point A. If you answered No, you will now have two of you. One at point A and the other at point B. From the time you are created at point B, you and your original at point A will continue to lead same lives with different memories. Well the lives will be the same until the indivisual memories go that far apart. How you gonna deal with that?

Ok, say you answered Yes, it means you are killing yourself at point A, because the 'you' recreated at point B is of entirely different material, although based on the same data. If you are the spiritual kind, what do you think happens to your soul?





1 Comments:

Blogger Siddharth said...

Interesting...I would not kill myself...

Sunday, November 11, 2007 8:30:00 PM

 

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