Teleportation vs Consciousness Adjust content blockingContent Blocking cadencee Channel: ----ing-science next random Comment Top Next Comment Okay so over the last few years scientists have been attempting to transfer quantum information from one place to another without having to traverse the distance between them and they have managed to do it multiple times, first only a few feet and lately over more than 80 miles by taking advantage of the entanglement between electrons. Now in theory, with the right technology and a perfect system we could transfer the entirety of the information of a human being using this method by simply 'overwriting' the information of other particles with our own. However the question stands, what would happen to the consciousness of said person once they were broken down and stripped of their particles and had their information transferred onto other particles on the other side of the world. Now before any science nazis get all buttmad I am not sure if the information exists in itself or the information is simply the arrangement of the particles but either way that's just a technicality. Either way the person is essentially killed, broken down and recreated in a new location with different particles the only thing making them, them is the information itself. So even if the 'clone' is identical to the original do you think that they would have the same consciousness? Or do you think they would simply die and a new person would be created in their place with all of their memories. tl;dr - If someone is completely broken down into their particles and recreated somewhere else with different particles would the person retain their consciousness or simply die and have a clone replace them? Sorry, this wasnt really structured, i tend to ramble. Here is a link if you want to read a bit about it, the are plenty of sources though. www(dot)gizmag(dot)com/teleport-quantum-information/32352/ next Tags: teleportation | science | Consciousness | philosophy +10 Views: 2463 Submitted: 07/19/2014 Facebook Twitter Google+ Tumblr Pinterest Unblock User's Content Block User's Content Unblock Channel Content Block Channel Content