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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > The Teleportation Problem - Self, Consciousness, Duplicates and Death
 
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Hammerstein
May 6, 2005

YOU DON'T KNOW A DAMN THING ABOUT RACING !

Nessus posted:

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.

I like to think that the beaming apparatus was actually a clone machine, which scanned the original and then destroyed it, while instantly creating a perfect clone at the destination. It was the best kept secret in the Federation.

Same dilemma in John Scalzi's SF classic "Old Man's War", I was often wondering if the consciousness of the protagonist wasn't simply copied instead of transferred when he got his combat body.

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