If you could have your body destroyed and immediately recreated somewhere else for $1million dollars -

[Christo4k47]

Would you do it?

It would be an atom for atom copy of your original body and the new body would have $1million dollars into their bank account.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Yeah, but the process would kill you right?

No thanks.

 

[Black Waltz]

would new me have all of my memories

 

[Christo4k47]

would new me have all of my memories

Yes it's an atom for atom copy

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Yes it's an atom for atom copy

As long as the transporters don't malfunction, right?

 

[Mysterious Capitalist]

Everyone that accepts the million is a moron: they might as well tell the benefactor to donate the money to charity; it's basically the same thing, since it won't be you to enjoy them, but just your clone. You'll be too dead to do it.

Honestly, there's no teleportation that involves the moving of single atoms that would make me accept the deal. The moment enough atoms are removed, you're just a corpse with a big hole, waiting to be recycled into a new human being that won't be you. The only teleportation I'd accept involves portals or wormholes, stuff that doesn't mess with my "continuity of self" in any way.

 

[RG 448]

Does the soul transfer to the new body in this hypothetical?

 

[LofaSofa]

Does the soul transfer to the new body in this hypothetical?

Kiwi Farmers have no souls.

 

[The Shadow]

Will there be moon wheat where I'm transferred to?

 

[Bassomatic]

why would I want to reduce my wealth to have this shitty Manlet body a second time?

 

[ConcernedAnon]

It seems in doubt that such a thing as a soul exists, and yet there is some hard to quantify element of continuity that is almost certainly not preserved in such a situation. Even though for all sensible purposes my duplicate would be me, I still value my continuity more than 1kk dinero.

It's funny how that is though; my duplicate would feel exactly as I do, think exactly as I do, and know all that I know. They would perceive continuity, and yet would not be a direct continuation of me. I wonder if we shall never understand the nature of continuity

why would I want to reduce my wealth to have this shitty Manlet body a second time?

With your 1e6 dolares you could have your legs extanded in Thailand. Enjoy being bed bound for 6 months

 

[HazamA]

Lurk Moar!

 

[ES 148]

I want my atoms used to build nukes

 

[Vilnus Asuncion]

Yes I would. I am only made of a certain amount of atoms placed in a certain way shocked by electricity to make them move, that's what makes me, me. I could be dispanded and re-created a million times, but If the same parts are placed togheter in the exact same way, It still would be me.

 

[Piss Clam]

If in the future we had such technology then I don't think a million dollars would mean much.

If I could manipulate atoms what is a dollar to me?

 

[Douglas Reynholm]

Everyone that accepts the million is a moron: they might as well tell the benefactor to donate the money to charity; it's basically the same thing, since it won't be you to enjoy them, but just your clone. You'll be too dead to do it.

Honestly, there's no teleportation that involves the moving of single atoms that would make me accept the deal. The moment enough atoms are removed, you're just a corpse with a big hole, waiting to be recycled into a new human being that won't be you. The only teleportation I'd accept involves portals or wormholes, stuff that doesn't mess with my "continuity of self" in any way.

Space is invisible mind dust, and stars are but wishes. Taking aside the hippy soul stuff, all we are in physical terms is information. What is 'you' is theoretically completely non-unique.

 

[PsychoNerd054]

Why don’t you do it first?

 

[Nekromantik]

Can you guarantee a fly will get involved and turn me into Nekrofly.

 

[Commander Keen]

This is like that book Old Man’s War where they get retirees to enlist and they transfer their memories into a new badass killing machine of a body and throw them against the xeno scourge.

If I was an old fuck and near death, sure. I’ll clock out a few years early to help the war effort or for a million bucks to blow. It’s basically using a continue.

 

[Mysterious Capitalist]

Space is invisible mind dust, and stars are but wishes. Taking aside the hippy soul stuff, all we are in physical terms is information. What is 'you' is theoretically completely non-unique.

I don't doubt that the clone would be equal to me to the quantum level and indistinguishable from me to *any* outside observer, no matter how minutely accurate they are. And the clone would indeed believe to be me by the fact that everything about them is what I am right now. And yet, the moment you kill me and disintegrate me, is the moment the me that is existing right now stops... well, existing, to make space for a new me that's created with their new body that's exactly like mine with memories exactly like mine and physical information just like mine. I'd tell you that the clone isn't me, but I'd be busy being dead; a bunch of atoms recycled into another human being that's me in everything aside from the fact that they're not the me that exists right now, but someone exactly like me that would eventually exists at that point, in a new consciousness continuity.

It's like in a videogame where you can make custom characters: if a character dies and you copy the template to make a new, identical one and move on, is the new character just a continuation of the old one? From appearance down to the lines of code that make the character, they are the same; and yet, the first instance of the character did die to make way to the second. There was a disruption, and that's enough for me to decline it.