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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Guardian 2000: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Sargon: [QB] [QUOTE] after beaming down is literally identical to the original down to the last subatomic particle, is there truly any difference of consequence? [/QUOTE]Yes, there is a consequence. You have a duplicate. If we used the Tranporter to duplicate me on the surface of a planet, leaving the original on the ship, then that is not "me" on the planet. He is the same as me, but not me. [/QUOTE]Doesn't work. The general concept of a transporter is that it beams the energy of you down and then makes that energy you again. Look at it this way: If I remove your arm and then reattach it, is that still your arm? Okay, now imagine that I do the same thing to a cell of yours, then an individual molecule, then a particular atom. Seems to me that they would still be yours just as much as the arm would. Now, if I take that atom, whip out E=mc^2, and convert the atom to energy, and then convert it back into its atomic, matter form, and *then* reattach it to you . . . what then? Is it a mere copy? I don't think so. Seems to me that it is the same thing. In a magnetic storage medium like a floppy disk, information is stored as a series of charges. A copy is made by having one disk head read the original charges that store information, while the head on another disk writes that same information on the other disk, with new energy. A transporter would be more akin to actually converting all of the original magnetic charge to electricity and then using that same energy to write to the new disk. Is that a copy merely because the charges are now at a different spot and didn't move directly there, or is that the new location of the original? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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