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

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

Have you read any Greg Egan, especially his short stories? This sort of topic is something he has explored extensively - one might say strip-mined!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Just one, but yes, I was drawing heavily on that in my imagination here.