tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639894776845764116.post1149610666727367462..comments2017-01-11T14:04:13.250-08:00Comments on What’s The Worst That Could Happen?: In Which I Argue Science Fiction Philosophymjaneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07642108550616338576noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639894776845764116.post-40713449316664051512009-08-06T17:16:37.585-07:002009-08-06T17:16:37.585-07:00I've actually thought a lot about this... kind...I've actually thought a lot about this... kind of. I'm less concerned with the spiritual/soul issue than with other moral issues on the practical side. As I see it, the most imaginable way for me to imagine this type of transportation is in which one's whole atomic make-up is scanned, recorded, transmitted and re-constituted in a different location using new atoms. It just seems a lot more reasonable than transporting a whole person's worth of atoms across space/time. What I wonder is: what happens to the old body once the new body is created? Is it incinerated? What if the old body changes its mind, and now there are two copies of you, neither of which wants to be destroyed? And can you keep uploaded copies of yourself in case something goes wrong, a la Dollhouse?<br /><br />I think moral philosophy has a long way to go before our society is ready for this kind of technology. I guess it's a good thing that it seems pretty much impossible.Bryan Schellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16363013248370351158noreply@blogger.com