we need teleportation frankly

  • Kata1yst
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    011 months ago

    Yeah I’m with you on this. Even from a pure science fiction perspective there’s just no way the experience of consciousness “transfers” by any currently understood science.

    Just like when you move a computer’s file across the Internet the result would be a copy, and that wouldn’t really be noticable or impactful to the copy or the people who know you and the copy would interact with, but it would make a hell of a lot of difference for the person going in. Great if you’re dying and want to do what you can (The Culture book series covers this possibility quite well) but otherwise small comfort.

    Best case scenario is “The Prestige”, but with a much quicker and cleaner death.

    And if someone slaps “quantum entanglement” on the table like that is a real answer for anything, imma not even bother.