Duplication poll

[jack]

Amongst people who would teleport:

Suppose you can duplicate yourself somewhere you want to be, and then destroy yourself instantly and painlessly; or we live in a matrix and you can duplicate your process and shut down the old one; or your brain has a perfect back up which can be brought back if you die; would you?

Yes
Yes, but I don't know if I'd have the nerve
No
I would in theory, but in practice there'd be too great a risk something would go wrong.
I can't answer because I think any teleporting or backup wouldn't contain my soul. I may have checked another answer as what I would do if I didn't.
Comments:

Comments

[icantcarenemore.livejournal.com]

When you say quantum, are you referring at all to the uncertainty principle?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

That was the general idea, but I don't understand it well enough to say anything for sure, so I feel I have to include the disclaimer to avoid misleading anyone or getting sidetracked, but want to avoid getting into the details and head off any discussion on that subject toward one of the physicists.