Sunday, January 31, 2010

Teleportation

Why are all of my blogs realizations or questions, in some fashion? I wonder.

While watching The Prestige, a movie with Christian Bale, Scarlett Johansson and Hugh Jackman, there comes a part where a man teleports himself across the room. A thought occurred to me, that I was rather proud of: teleportation requires all information, matter, or other material/such be transported from one location to another EXACTLY THE WAY IT WAS IN THE "PRESENT". Therefore, if humans were to be teleported from one place to another (a phenomenon which I believe to be entirely impossible, yet would be very intruigued to learn of its success), the brain would have to be exactly the way as it was once transported. BUT, , once the brain were transported, the resulting teleported person would not retain the same consciousness; in other words, you would not live through the teleportation. An exact clone of you in the same mindset and everything that you had the moment you teleported would result wherever your copy is now, but you yourself would die, and your consciousness would fail, being lost forever. Therefore, teleportation may in fact be possible, but it isn't possible for subjects with a consciousness to "live" through the process, however theoretical the field is.

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