meganmayWed, Jul 23, 2008 My interest in this thread was renewed the other day when i started reading about how teleportation will work. Yes yes, so Star Trek, i know, BUT it presents a very interesting perspective on the body and mind as essentially just a summation of atoms which can potentially be disassembled, transported, and reassembled with every emoto-physical characteristic intact. In one sense, it makes the mind body problem irrelevant, everything is contained in the smallest particles, mind is matter and matter is mind. And in another, it makes matter seem almost immaterial almost virtual in and of itself. The difficulty with human teleportation of course, it that, the position of every atom would have to be stored and the collection of atoms would have to reassemble themselves perfectly, lest the traveller arrive on the other end as damaged goods just as the original copy was being destroyed. Tricky business, but worthwhile thought experiment.
My interest in this thread was renewed the other day when i started reading about how teleportation will work. Yes yes, so Star Trek, i know, BUT it presents a very interesting perspective on the body and mind as essentially just a summation of atoms which can potentially be disassembled, transported, and reassembled with every emoto-physical characteristic intact. In one sense, it makes the mind body problem irrelevant, everything is contained in the smallest particles, mind is matter and matter is mind. And in another, it makes matter seem almost immaterial almost virtual in and of itself. The difficulty with human teleportation of course, it that, the position of every atom would have to be stored and the collection of atoms would have to reassemble themselves perfectly, lest the traveller arrive on the other end as damaged goods just as the original copy was being destroyed. Tricky business, but worthwhile thought experiment.