Reply #69: I recall a Sci Fi story like that...

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To teleport, a person would have their mind scanned and sent at light speed to their destination, where it would be downloaded into a robot. The original mind is not changed in this process, but to avoid later confusion, the original is put in suspended animation.

When the trip is over, the mind is beamed back, and the new experiences downloaded into the original person's mind, who awakes with the memories as if he'd been there himself.

Presumably, you could forego the suspended animation, but it might be disconcerting having two distinct sets of memories for what you did at any particular moment during your trip.

The subjective "you" of the original is never destroyed. Whether the robot feels a subjective self is another question; if it does, this might be destroyed when the robot's mind is beamed back. Hard to say how the copy of your mind in the robot's body might feel about that.

Anybody remember that story?