Wouldn't it be great to be able to teleport to your friend's house, or across the globe instantaneously, or at the speed of light? That'd be amazing, helpful, and priceless technology. However, there is an issue with teleportation...
In order to teleport something we would need to make an anatomical map of a person. Break them down into a blueprint of the atoms (or even smaller particles) that make up their body so the information could be transferred to the destination... but, what would come out of the other side?
If somebody was mapped at an anatomical level, then teleported to another destination, would it be the same person that comes out the other side? Would they have the same personality? The same memories? The same ethics and way of thinking? Or does what makes us human go deeper than an anatomical, or even physical level? Even if we could take that anatomical map and break it down to every single particle, millions of times smaller than atoms, and reassemble them at the other end of the teleportation device, would the same problem persist? Would that person be the same person?
Does the human construct go deeper than purely a physical level, or is there something more that makes us who we are? Some people call this a "soul" and believe many different things. So, if a human was purely physical, and we could blueprint that person to the smallest degree, then the person coming out of the other end of the teleporter would be the same person (memories, personality, and all). However, if who we are as human transcends a physical level, the person at the other end would not be the same "person." Yes, they would have the same particle (physical) makeup, but they wouldn't have what that non-physical property that makes us "who we are."
So, what do you think? Is a human purely physical and a reconstructed particle makeup of that person have every quality as the person who first entered the teleporter? Or is there something more?
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