Re: Teleportation: still have not been invented
Teleportation = generating a perfect clone and killing the original?
Here is my view on the subject, I strongly believe that some collection of cells in our brain define our existance, where existance = consciousness + memory. Consciousness is existance relative to ourself, and memory is existance relative to others. Given a clone is perfect, then the part of our brain that defines consciousness is a perfect copy, which means the same consciousness will be created. Since it should be clear that our consciousness is what defines us relative to ourself, then if two bodies share the same consciousness, it should be clear that we are talking about a single mind with two bodies. The two bodies will be completely consciousness of each of their environment, every experience is shared, and since it does not make much sense to talk about the limiting speed of information in this sense, one may assume all sorts of tricks to make this work out, such as consciousness being achieved through time travel, or quantum entaglement information travel.
Therefore I believe what you wrote actually equals to saying, create a new body for yourself at the very spot you're going to travel to, while destroying your previous body, with the detail that your new body is exactly the same as your previous.
That's to say it shortly, that it's garanteed that it's the same existance after the teleportation, otherwise it would not be a perfect clone.
in the movie "the prestige", yes, watch it, if you want a disturbing story about magicians, don't watch it, if you don't like harry potter, like garbad said
Is it the movie where the villian keeps on getting cloned because he gets assassinated all the time, when we in the end sees what happens when there're two clones?
I believe that these clones where not what you call a perfect clone, and therefore it was actually new existance that was created. Sure the memory was the same, therefore relative to every other person except the previous clone, it was the same person (that's since we do not know what would happen in the future, given if the clone was not made, other decissions could have been made, but there's a whole line of plausible decission any person can make, and therefore it's not possible to find if two persons who share the same memory does not share the same mind, unless we actually can measure consciousness (which I hope we'll soon be able to, as I believe it may be one of the ways to achieve eternal life). Note I'm not talking about quantum randomness here, but assumes that free will exist and is linked to consciousness.
So in short, we should be just as afraid for teleporting, as for talking a walk, since we do not understand how our existance is actually created (life is still a mystery, otherwise we'd have been able to copy its magnificient abilities), we could just as well be a whole new person the very next moment, believing due to memory we were the same person all along, while the true you may be in oblivion.
