An idea for a post here.
A thought occurred to me with respect to the teleportation concept that is a one of the Star Trek space opera props.
The thought goes like this: if teleportation of an object, which includes the possibility of a human being, would that person still be the same person that you started with?
This is a metaphysical type question.
That question relates to human existence. What makes a man what he is? If you teleport a man to another location, you must deconstruct that man, and then reconstruct him in another place. A question arises to whether that deconstruction actually KILLS the man, and the reconstruction actually RESURRECTS that man. This is definitely a metaphysical question worth exploring.
You'd actually have to know exactly how many cells are in a particular human body. Current estimates are 3.7 trillion. You may even want to know the quantum state of each atom in the body, which is off the charts high. It is the quantum state that may be destroyed in the act of observing what they are. If you destroy the quantum state, do you destroy the man?
If you indeed have to destroy the man, can you possibly reconstruct the man in another location?
Or is that the same man, should that even be possible? Inquiring minds would like to know.
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