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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > The Teleportation Problem - Self, Consciousness, Duplicates and Death
 
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 If we have the technology to generate exact duplicates of ourselves on the atomic level and transfer the data necessary to create those duplicates over light-year-plus distances in reasonable amounts of time, then why would we even bother having bodies anymore? By the time the technology is there for that to be a real pertinent question, we'll have gone through so many other ethically troublesome technologies that it'll be surprising if there's anything left of modern ethics and philosophy at all.

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