[ExI] Does the Star Trek transporter kill people?

[Adrian Tymes]

Not in this case.  Redness really is identical for the entity before
teleportation and after teleportation.

On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 9:02 AM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Any one of these engineered copies would "seem" to be the same when they
> all tell you the strawberry is red:
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> You will see the difference, if you ask each one: "What is redness like
> for you?"
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> Are these differences important?
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> On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 8:50 PM Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com>
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>> On Fri, 29 Oct 2021 at 12:24, Brent Allsop <brent.allsop at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> I would say, yes, absolutely, he is killed.
>>> Now, if you had the original not killed, when duplicated, you could get
>>> the two together, then do a brain computational binding with a neural
>>> ponytail <https://youtu.be/9Ru9fw7szQw?t=140>.
>>> Then you could check to see if something like red/green inversion
>>> happened, to the reproduced copy, and check to see if you lost any other
>>> memories, and all that.
>>> So that would help.  But if you didn't have two brains, after
>>> the duplication, the original will have been killed.
>>> Continuity is important to identity.  It's not all important, but
>>> everything like that is more than trivial importance.
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>> Kirk has been through the transporter hundreds of times and he seems to
>> be the same despite this. Is that not good enough for you?
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>>> --
>> Stathis Papaioannou
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