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Source Page. Credit is to SMBC-Comics and even more credit to @aperson@beehaw.org who noticed it was missing and found the credit in this comment. Sorry about that and thanks, you're awesome aperson <3

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[–] Quentinp@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Always reminds me of one of my favorite books (part of a series) The Collapsium by Will McCarthy. A big part of the book is their version of teleporting which does involve destruction and recreation, but while you're at it you could make more than one copy at the destination...

[–] FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (11 children)

If your consciousness exists right down to conversationally-induced existential dread, what do you care what or where the substrate it exists on is?

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[–] chahk@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago
[–] adam@kbin.pieho.me 3 points 1 year ago

Read the "The Punch Escrow". Not star trek but well worth it if you're into this sort of thought experiment.

[–] emile@tacobu.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reminds me of that CGP Grey video elaborating on the same idea https://youtu.be/nQHBAdShgYI

[–] GreenTeaRedFlag@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

If you stepped through a time-travel portal, your conscience would effectively not exist between the original time and the time the portal leads to, yet no one would call you dead. If you could somehow install your mind into a new body, let's say you download it into a flashdrive and plug it into someone else's brain while your original body lays without a mind, people may call our body dead but not you. So when there is a continuity of self between the person who steps inot the teleporter and the person who steps out, I will never call that a death, that's silly.

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[–] HairHeel@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I guess if he remembers the conversation he knows it’s not true. If he doesn’t remember the conversation, you get more amusement next time you tell him.

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[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To be

A cute little animation exploring the transporter problem.

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