Re:Physicists Say That Teleportation is Unworkable
by jes5199 on Monday August 05, 2013 @01:07AM
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yeah, but is quantum state really necessary to replicate an indistinguishable copy of a human being? There's probably some sort of lossy way to represent a human brain-state and body-state that's good enough. As a thought experiment: how much subatomic noise could you introduce into your own body before you damaged it significantly? Irradiation, electric shocks, temperature changes, introduction of various chemicals - and yet you're still you. Your "self" could probably survive some pretty spectacular waveform transcription errors.
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Re:Physicists Say That Teleportation is Unworkable
by Xcelerate on Monday August 05, 2013 @01:18AM
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> Lossy human compression
Uh-oh, this is not something I would want to be a part of
Re:Physicists Say That Teleportation is Unworkable
by jes5199 on Monday August 05, 2013 @01:50AM
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I think you might be better off with a lossy copy, actually! We could lengthen your telomeres - come to think of it, how attached are you to that DNA? We might as well patch up your genes on the way. In fact, should just build you a stronger skeleton and musculature from first principles, rather than xeroxing the one in your current body. As long as we get the gross neuron structures of your brain - and your encoded memories (which might simply be stored as binary code in some proteins as described in http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120309103701.ht... ), then I say that you're as "you" as two copies of firefox are "the same program".
Re:Physicists Say That Teleportation is Unworkable
by ajuc on Monday August 05, 2013 @10:32AM
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We could just send let people choose one out of few perfectly healthy body templates and only send brain state and body template number. Think how much bandwith that would save.