: I think a bigger problem is, what happens to your consciousness during the
: teleportation? Would the person who went through the teleporter be aware
: that he had arrived, or would his mind have been dissipated by the process
: of reducing him to bits or disconnected atoms and a new clone created at
: the destination? Even if "real" teleportation is invented and
: made totally reliable within my lifetime, I would not use it for this
: reason (the fact that the resulting clone of me would make exactly the
: same decisions as me and live out the rest of his life as I would is cold
: comfort).
With the quantum teleportation, you're not so much creating a clone and destroying the original, or even ripping the original apart and moving it somewhere else; on the lowest, purely informational level of reality (that we presently understand), the two atoms *become* one another, or rather, switch where they are and how they're moving. A block of stone suddenly becomes where Mark Levin and some air used to be, an Mark Levin and the surrounding air are suddenly where that hunk of stone was. Nothing was created or destroyed, just swapped.
