Transporters and Quantum Teleportation
A reply to CGP Grey's video about teleportation, consciousness and Star Trek. CGP Grey's Transporter video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHBAdShgYI REFERENCES Scott Aaronson on teleportatio...
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My good friend CGP Grey has made a great video about the practical and philosophical concernswith teleportation, in particular the concern that when a transporter dismantles the atomsin your body and reassembles an identical arrangement of atoms somewhere else, perhapsthe disassembled you actually dies and the reassembled you is actually a new being thatjust thinks it’s you. And if they simply hadn’t dismantled the original you, thenthere’d now be two “you’s” in the universe, and which is really you? You, orthe teleported you?Grey’s video covers these questions really well so if you want more background you shouldgo watch that, but I do have one additional piece of information I’d like to point out,something the original creators of Star Trek were de...
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My good friend CGP Grey has made a great video about the practical and philosophical concernswith teleportation, in particular the concern that when a transporter dismantles the atomsin your body and reassembles an identical arrangement of atoms somewhere else, perhapsthe disassembled you actually dies and the reassembled you is actually a new being thatjust thinks it’s you. And if they simply hadn’t dismantled the original you, thenthere’d now be two “you’s” in the universe, and which is really you? You, orthe teleported you?Grey’s video covers these questions really well so if you want more background you shouldgo watch that, but I do have one additional piece of information I’d like to point out,something the original creators of Star Trek were de...
