If you could have one piece of science fiction technology?
If you could have one piece of science fiction technology?
What would you choose?
For me it would have to be a teleport/transporter. Especially, something like the personal teleport seen in Dr Who, The Tomorrow People or Star Trek Discovery.
I would like to visit distant lands but get badly travel sick.
You're viewing a single thread.
You realize a transporter would have to rip you apart atom by atom and then reconstruct you at the new location. Thus begging the question…is the reconstruction really you, or simply a duplicate made of the same configuration of atoms. Did you simply die and a new you with you same body and memories get reborn from the new atoms. How much of your original essence still exists, or was lost to entropy? Are you repeatedly vaporizing yourself and creating some imposter clone each time you Teleport?
The ship doesn't care if it's still "of Theseus".
The thing is, the cells in your body are constantly dying and being replaced. So you are not 100% the same person you were even ten minutes ago.
Having said that there’s a short film on Dust that presents a different angle. (I must look it up). The people that are transported come back ‘changed’ because of the experience. It’s disturbing.