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Oh well; you probably don't want to be teleported (cloned and killed) anyway.

• kruczek 12y ago
  Only if you speak about teleportation as cloning and killing. But if you speak about kind of a wormhole teleportation (which the paper mentions among other things), then it doesn't really pose any philosophical dilemma.
  • informatimago 12y ago
    It has been established that Star Trek teleportation was cloning and killing. But this may not be a problem: either people have a soul or they don't. - if they don't have a soul, then I don't see how cloning and killing could be a problem. - if they do have a soul, then in the killing part the soul is detached from the destroyed body. And in the cloning part, some soul should attach to the created body. The question is then whether the original soul reattach to the clone or another soul? It seems likely that the original soul reattach to the clone, because they are better atuned, than another soul. Now, where you could have a problem, is if another soul get attached to the clone. Some episodes of ST TOS and of ST VOY explored the problem (soul splitting, interferences with souls from parallel universes, etc). But this doesn't seem to be the normal use case. Of course, we won't know what happens in our universes until we try it. Go science!
    • kruczek 12y ago
      If people don't have a soul, it still is a problem, because you are still killing a person. Why should I care that my exact clone will be living my life, if I'll be vaporized? And consider another scenario, as described in "Into the Silent Land" - what if there's a malfunction and the clone is created, but I am not immediately destroyed - should I then voluntarily agree to be killed just to make sure there's only one of myself?