Our Identity

Originally posted by Scriabin
Let me pose a hypothetical problem:

Suppose a device existed that could allegedly transport you from one place to another instantaneously without your having actually to travel between the point from which you depart and the point to which you arrive.

The device would disassemble you, atom by atom, and commit to a computer's memory the pattern of your ...[text shortened]... rded a the departure point -- so it would make no difference.

Would there be a difference?

if i were to make a sand castle on an irish beech and on an american beech...with the same bucket...
same sandcastle diffrent sand.

see?

Originally posted by podge fitz
if i were to make a sand castle on an irish beech and on an american beech...with the same bucket...
same sandcastle diffrent sand.

see?

For starters, the idea is to have the "sand" you used in Eyre for your "castle", transported to USA, and then to create an identical "castle" out of it. But your "castle" is lifeless anyway, so this analogy seems to me a bit poor😵