/sci/ - Science & Math

"Teleportation is the transfer of matter from one point to another, more or less instantaneously."

Let's say that we somehow manage to completely dematerialization of an organism from it's starting location, A; send the exact same data over a distance to another location, B; and then completely reconstruct the organism back to it's original form. We can say that the organism has momentarily died and revived at a different location, similarly to copying and pasting.

Are you dead? Is the 'original' you dead?

Likewise, if all of your data is copied and temporarily stored and the 'original' is completely removed from existence; then, we use the stored information to recreate you.

Are you alive or dead?