[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

It would be a carbon copy. There seems to be something ethically wrong about destroying all the particles in your body and rebuilding it somewhere else.

[The Lung]

Originally Posted by musicfallinglikesnow

Everything's the same in this Universe, from a certain point of view.
What's the difference between a rat dying and a star collapsing?
It's in the eye of the beholder, I guess.
We're bits of nothing into that vaste emptyness we call the Universe.
Patterns repeat because in fact there are as many as infinite universes nested one into the other. Think about the atoms, for instance. They have their own galaxies and empty space and colliding forces. Like fractals or the number aleph.
When we address the infinity, all of us (human, not human, atom, whatever) are equal before the Great Thing, or the Great Void, as you prefer.
Just in my humble opinion, of course.
*Edit: "What's true below, it's true above" - William Blake.

Great post, William Blake is actually God

[Rob Instigator]

and they are both dead

[Silent Dan Speaks]

Originally Posted by Tokolosh

Teleportation is another option. The thing that makes many scientists worry about teleporting (if it's ever achieved), is the fact that if you dematerialize here and appear somewhere else, it could damage your DNA and cell structure. Not only that. Will it really be you, or a carbon copy, that materializes on the other side.

So basically, this means that The Fly may one day be a true story?

[Tokolosh]

Originally Posted by Silent Dan Speaks

So basically, this means that The Fly may one day be a true story?

I don't see it happening in the near future, but if we ever invent a teleporter, we'd better check the interior for flies and other microbes, before beaming up Scotty.

In the introduction of a book titled The Mind's I, there's a story of an astronaut that goes on a mission to mars, leaving her daughter Sarah, back on Earth. When she arrives on the planets hostile surface, she accidentally crashes her ship, and realizes that the only way to get back to be with her daughter, is to use her backup teleporter (Teleclone Mark IV). She does so, but the problem arises, when she starts to ask herself if it's really her or a clone, that greets Sarah back home.

It's a good book about many thing to do with fantasies and reflections on self and soul. Well worth reading.