• pixeltree@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you take the drive apart, ship its parts somewhere, and reassemble it, is it the same drive?

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      1 year ago

      Yes. But that’s not what’s happening in teleportation. It doesn’t use the same parts, but different ones arranged in the exact same way.

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        1 year ago

        Depends on the teleportation system. In star trek you are comprised of the same physical material, just converted to energy and back. I could be wrong though, I’m no expert. I think a more interesting question is, would you be more ok being killed in one place, having your body be transported mundanely and being revived at your destination, or being cloned perfectly and then having the original killed? Theoretically the same to you either way