Would you use teleportation?

[ADigitalArtist]

If this were possible it would pretty much prove materialism. If you're not a materialist, you would have to claim this is impossible.

Unless I'm missing something.

Souls aren't confined to material spacetime so the link to the body isn't location based or delayed. There, rationalized.

I'm a materialist by the way, I just don't believe this would stop something as amorphously defined as souls from being recontextualized.

 

[Kuzcotopia]

Souls aren't confined to material spacetime so the link to the body isn't location based or delayed. There, rationalized.

I'm a materialist by the way, I just don't believe this would stop something as amorphously defined as souls from being recontextualized.

But a total physical deconstruction and reconstruction elsewhere would mean that any non material aspect of self would not be present at the physical reconstruction, unless it leaped from the old body to the new body.

How would that work?

On the other hand, you're right. "Prove" is impossible. . . but like 21st century neuroscience, the evidence would continue to build until most non-materialist arguments are a "mind of the gaps" situation.

And on the third hand, speaking of "impossible", this teleportation thought exercise is actually not demonstrable, and seems unlikely to ever be so.

 

[ADigitalArtist]

But a total physical deconstruction and reconstruction elsewhere would mean that any non material aspect of self would not be present at the physical reconstruction, unless it leaped from the old body to the new body.

How would that work?

On the other hand, you're right. "Prove" is impossible. . . but like 21st century neuroscience, the evidence would continue to build until most non-materialist arguments are a "mind of the gaps" situation.

And on the third hand, speaking of "impossible", this teleportation thought exercise is actually not demonstrable, and seems unlikely to ever be so.

I don't see how this would make any steps towards a materialistic outlook when believers don't believe bodies are necessary for souls, just the other way around. They could verywell believe a soul chooses a body, and would choose the new body.

I agree though, that it's unlikely we're going to have Star Trek style teleporters in the forseeable future, at least not one capable of accurately reconstructing as complex a machine as the human brain. But, who knows? Perhaps we'll get there someday. Though I think Star Trek got it backwards and we'll have sentient artificial life (such as Data and the holographic Doctor) long before teleportation machines.

 

[Iti oj]

Pretend that teleportation were invented and it worked by splitting you into atoms and rebuilding you with them at point B.

Wouldn't you technically die every time you teleport? Is it really 'you' that comes out on the other end? Or is some other consciousness that believes it's the same one?

If that were the case, would you use teleportation? Would you be willing to accept that something that believes it's you and carries all of your memories. will come out on the other end and use teleportation in times of need?

Or would you view teleportation the same way you view death and not use it?

Heck I'd even test the tech

 

[Aupmanyav]

If that were the case, would you use teleportation? Would you be willing to accept that something that believes it's you and carries all of your memories. will come out on the other end and use teleportation in times of need?

A successful teleportation will do that and it will be me at the other place. But at my age, I do not travel much and I can travel by road, rail, air, etc. Let teleportation be used for people who want to go where no other people have gone (Captain Kirk, I do not remember the exact words).