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The particles that make up your will have a probability of being in a certain place according to some rules. When you move, the particles "disappear" from one p
by snom380 10y ago
The particles that make up your will have a probability of being in a certain place according to some rules. When you move, the particles "disappear" from one place and "appear" at another place. Do you know they are the same particles? Does it matter?
Does it matter more that there's no duplicate particles (ie. no changes of a copy being made)?
In that case, you could device a teleport machine that makes sure to read the state "bit by bit" (particle by particle), then destroys the original particle before creating a new particle in another location. How different would that be compared to what's normally happening to your body?
- scotchmi_st 10y ago> Does it matter more that there's no duplicate particles (ie. no changes of a copy being made)? Yes, it does matter. No copy being introduced means it's just a translation of displacement. That's an entirely different operation. Quantum tunnelling is fun to think about, but at the scale of atoms it starts to lose any relevance, and at the scale of neurons has no meaning at all.