X-Message-Number: 14906
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 16:51:24 +0200
From: Stasys Adiklis <>
Subject: Re: Pizerism, briefly.
References: <>

Hi,

> No one doubts that the person stepping out will have a personal existence,
> and most will not doubt that the person stepping out will "think" he/she is
> the other person, but the question is not what the person stepping out
> thinks, but rather what is the truth about the survival of the person
> stepping in? (Why we also need better epistemology).

That's funny. I thought that almost no one has any problems with accepting
the idea of teleporting. It's pretty straightforward in StarTrek, The Fly
and other movies. Some of us already have had a happy experience of
teleportation... in computer games ;-)

Let me tell you yet another sci-fi story. A comic one.

Imagine...

Some crazy scientist presented teleportation technology in an exhibition
"Transportation 2075". He stepped in (not for the first time, obviously)
one cabin and stepped out from the other. Everyone got the message with
no problems, and a few months later hundreds of commercial companies were
busy competing in a new market - selling teleporters for all kinds of
transportation needs. Stairs, elevators, public transport... all those
things were disappearing from a face of Earth pretty rapidly.

Meanwhile a church of Pizerists was busy convincing everybody:
"Don't use those evil telepods, telepads and other tele-stuff! The question
is not what the person stepping out thinks, but rather what is the truth
about the survival! The truth is that something nonfeelable, unperceivable,
still unknown to modern science is not being transferred..."

The end.


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