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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > The Teleportation Problem - Self, Consciousness, Duplicates and Death
 
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Nessus
Dec 22, 2003

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Svaha posted:

This question, and similar ones concerning the transfer of consciousness to machines, always assumes a break in the continuity of consciousness between the initial state and the final state.

What if you were able to experience the process of transitioning from one state to the other without a discernible break in consciousness? Since there is no break in consciousness wouldn't that mean you are the same person at the other end?
This is actually how the process appears to work in Star Trek. There's an episode where you even get a POV shot of being beamed, albeit specifically with a note that the fellow in question is experiencing it peculiarly due to an overabundance of Star Trek in the area.

Now of course this doesn't mean that the question doesn't have validity, they just seemed to have addressed it in that particular circumstance.

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