Reduplication

[Void Image]

This is something that really got me thinking, and I still can't get my mind around it.

Suppose, in the far future, a machine is developed composed of two cubicles. If you place an object in the first cubicle, it creates an exact copy, atom for atom, in the second cubicle, but the object in the first cubicle is immediately vaporized. Now, suppose you put a person inside the first cubicle. The person is 'destroyed', but at the other end an exact copy has been made with the exact brain configuration as the first, making it essentially the same person, with the same psychological properties. Essentially the person has been 'transported'. You have the same body, the same brain, therefore (setting aside theories of a soul) you remain consious and alive.

Now, suppose that instead of two cubicles, there are three, and instead of one duplicate, two duplicates are created. Where do you go?

[Scaryclouds]

Going by this being strictly hypothetical and ignoring possible scientific and religious laws (laws the god created not nessecarily what is read in the bible) perhapes your for lack of a better word soul would be duplicated? Or perhapes divide into two equal pieces. Personally I find the latter far scarier as what would a person be like if they had only half a soul?

[IDK]

This is something that really got me thinking, and I still can't get my mind around it.

Suppose, in the far future, a machine is developed composed of two cubicles. If you place an object in the first cubicle, it creates an exact copy, atom for atom, in the second cubicle, but the object in the first cubicle is immediately vaporized. Now, suppose you put a person inside the first cubicle. The person is 'destroyed', but at the other end an exact copy has been made with the exact brain configuration as the first, making it essentially the same person, with the same psychological properties. Essentially the person has been 'transported'. You have the same body, the same brain, therefore (setting aside theories of a soul) you remain consious and alive.

Now, suppose that instead of two cubicles, there are three, and instead of one duplicate, two duplicates are created. Where do you go?
There would be two of you.. just as if in the first example, the original copy wasn't vaporized....

[mataj]

Something tells me, that even if such technology becomes feasable one day, there will be severe shortage of candidates for vaporization.

[ortholocks]

I think the formula for human conciseness is essentially all your sense data from the previous moment piped thru two sets of neurons (long and short term memory) that can retain previous sense data then all of that is put with the new moment of sense data and sent back thru. Everything is kept in short term and if we think about it enough we put in long term.

So if this thing can accurately reproduce electrons in motion, then there would be two of you both of whom remember stepping into the thing and why, and everything else.