There would be no way to determine if your consciousness persists - such that the same "you" is the same connection on both sides. Even if it looks like you, acts like you - it would shatter the foundation for what it means to be conscious.
All I'd count on is that it would be the cheapest method that does the job. If soundproofing the booth and killing you slowly and painfully saves them money over quick and painless, you are probably getting slow and painful.
Personally, my threshold question for whether or not I would consider using a transporter is: can this technology be tweaked to make a duplicator instead of a transporter?
If the answer is "yes", I'm not riding.
It kills "you". Not the objective "you" of course, that lives on in the copy. It kills the subjective "you".
By terminating the stream of consciousness, the person going into the matter teleporter dies. There's no way for the stream of consciousness to continue after that point.
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If you're comfortable dying so that a copy of you can live the rest of your life, that's your business. But most people don't have that sort of objectivity.
In which case, if consciousness can be streamed, can that consciousness be hijacked? Or do I stop existing the moment it's transported?
Too many uncertainties.
That would require an enormous amount of bravery and belief in the technology.
Really, there's no way to determine if your consciousness persists from one moment to the next. All that we know and experience is perfectly consistent with a world in which every moment in time has a different "you."
If I remember correctly, that was actually the reason that anesthetics weren't used in operations for a time after their discovery - people believed that if you were out your soul would leave your body. Luckily, we've gotten over that particular idea.
Inspired by an Outer Limits episode.
The long answer is that under no circumstance should I ever be allowed anywhere near a person-copier, whether it teleports or not, unless you would somehow enjoy being conquered and ruled by a ravening horde of me-copies.
The complete lack of political corruption would almost make up for having to be around me all the time. I think most people would probably prefer an occupying clone army/bureaucracy to at least be somewhat attractive. If you think it's bad having one "2" at a party, just imagine a hundred copies of that person that are all trying too hard to go home with you or your date (or both) rather than go back to the disappointing dogpile at the clone barracks, yet again. And now imagine that instead of that happening one time at a party, it's everywhere you go, forever.
Inspired by final chapters of The Forever War.
What makes you believe that either copy of "you" would be diminished in any way? Also, which foundation of consciousness would be shattered?
So I guess, to answer your question, are defined by who you are to the rest of the world or are you defined by the collection of thoughts and actions that make up your experience?
But, surely, the non-teleported "me" would not be the "me" that got teleported, it would be the "me" that was left behind and destroyed.
"generating a pulsed gravitational wave which propagates through a magnetic vortex wormhole generator; and generating a wormhole with the magnetic vortex generator whereby the pulsed gravitational wave traverses through the wormhole and enters into hyperspace where the wave is enormously magnified due to the lower speed of light in that dimension"
Seems totally legit.
http://news.psu.edu/story/141406/1995/12/01/research/deflati...
Note the metadata field on the google patents page:
Publication type Application
In the USPTO's Public PAIR system, the detailed history of the application, with images of all the documents, is available. The response from the USPTO was a "non-final rejection". The rejection starts out with "An examination of this application indicates that applicant is unfamiliar with patent prosecution procedure", and then includes a FAQ the USPTO sends to the clueless.
After that, the examiner writes "The invention is not supported by a credible utility or well-established utility because the claims call for the generation of gravitational waves and and the interacting of the waves with hyperspace ... The use of hyperspace and gravitational waves in the claims therefore must be backed up with significant scientific and experimental data ... (applicant must prove) ... that the applicant has the ability to harness such interaction for a useful purpose and demonstrate it on demand."
The applicant never replied to that, so, six months later, the application was rejected for failure to reply to an office action. The applicant does not get his application fee of $770 back. Trolling the patent office is expensive.
The USPTO did exactly what they should have done. They took the application seriously, and sent the applicant a non-final rejection requiring proof that it worked. The applicant then gave up.
Nine years later, the applicant sent in a notice of assignment, reporting the sale of the (nonexistent) patent rights to someone in Bakersfield, CA, for $5. This was filed incorrectly, but the USPTO scanned it in and put it in the database.
> In the next instance, he (G) found himself down the street near the corner of the next block. Realizing that he had passed the bus stop, he turned around to see the iron grating approximately 50 meters up the street in back of him. Because there was no recollection of having jumped across the iron grating nor of having passed the bus stop's yellow marker line, he realized that he had been teleported a distance of 100 meters while moving along with the traveling wave.
Although you have to give him credit for mixing physics, geometry, with new age pseudo-science babble:
> The question is how does this amplified gravitational wave created by the rotating propellers and turbines get into hyperspace from our dimension?
> The answer comes from experiments done using the ancient Chinese form of breathing known as Chi Kung. Using this breathing technique, we have been able to levitate the human body over six feet in the air. The internal temperature of the stomach is around 200 degrees Fahrenheit. By simultaneously squeezing the diaphragm to bring hot air up through the lungs, and breathing through the nose to bring cold air down, rotating vortices are generated in the lung passages when these two air masses meet and twist around each other as depicted in the famous Yin-Yang diagram. Because the lung has variable diameter passages from the large diameter at the throat to the final small air sacs, there is a spectrum of rotating frequencies.
From which he jumps to this sentence:
> From quantum physics it is known that if there is a temperature fluctuation occurring among a group of harmonic oscillators in the environment, then Planck's reduced constant Figure US20060071122A1-20060406-P00900 is increased by the cotangent of the constant times the frequency ω of the oscillator divided by twice Boltzmann's constant k times the temperature T ℏ = ℏ coth ( ℏω n 2 kT )
But really, who needs black holes when you have breathing?
That's probably because of all the, um, "blowing smoke into hyperspace".
> It took a number of days in order to understand this sequence of events. The explanation involves knowledge of a wide range of subjects such as gravitation physics, hyperspace physics, wormhole electromagnetic theory and experimentation, quantum physics, and the nature of the human energy field.
