Teleportation. It isn't you that comes out the other side. Or is it?

Jason Moyer on 25/9/2012 at 11:17

If a babelfish translates by shitting in your ear, will you eventually die of speech poisoning?

faetal on 25/9/2012 at 11:17

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I don't know that it's correct to say it is "chemical" in origin though, or even if trying to describe it that way gives us any useful concepts - it's enough to say that it is intrinsically bound to the particulate composition of the brain and therefore exact replication of all those particles will result in exact replication of conciousness.

The infrastructure of neural pathways and the various places they end up and the character of the relationships between those areas are what determines the layout of the person and everything they can think, do, feel etc... The exact location of ions, neuto-transmitters, etc are what determines the electrical state of the brain. There isn't free electricity per se in the brain, only electron gradients driven by the relative position of ions either side of membranes. I'm not sure what happens if you produce the exact same configuration in a non-functioning state (as one could hypothesise our brand new copy being) as to whether it would pick up where it left off, or decompensate horribly, forcing the brain to essentially re-boot (I'm not even sure what that might entail, since so much is regulated in the brain), I just know that any and all electrical activity in the brain is chemical in origin, as in - no chemical charge present = no electricity.

Sombras on 25/9/2012 at 18:46

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Er..or couldn't you just use teleportation as..teleportation, and avoid the need for physical travel at all? ;)

Wuh, well...ffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuck. DDL. FUCK!