Thunderous Heart
mosquitoboy
What kinds of video games do you play?
Do you believe that the people who are standing on the transporter are the same people that appear on the planet, or do you believe they are different people with the same memories and looks?
I don't understand the second question. As for the first, I've found myself playing lots of Team Fortress 2, LoadOut, Terraria and Transformice. 4laugh
WTF is transformice?!
My Fiance and I have played a lot of terraria. Have you seen the new game out by the Terraria guys? It's still very much beta, but it's about space and going planet to planet.
The star treck question is about their transporters... It's a philosophical question dating back to Socrates (Or another philosopher) about a girl going in for an operation.
If you are on a transporter, you are broken up into a billion atoms, you are essentially Dead. Your vaporised, downloaded into a computer, turned into atoms... any of these ideas kills you. If these atoms were then placed back together to form a being that looks, acts, feels, thinks like you do. Would you be in control of that being on the planet as you were in control of yourself on the space ship. IS that the same person? Or is it just a copy of the person? Does the 1st person die, and a copy is made? Or when you are destroyed, will your consciousness also transfer over?