The Science of Half-Life

Half-Life Series
#21

Precisely my problem with it. Surely you’d have to be taken as a whole, otherwise your entire conscious state would be lost ( for however brief a period it may be ) between these theoretical teleporters.

Would the person that came out the other side though not think he was you? His brain would be made up the exact same way, so assuming memories are hard wired into our brain, he would for all intents and purposes believe he is you.

However he would be an entirely new entity and you would of ceased to be the moment your atoms were broken down for transportation.

I think I’d much prefer to go by wormhole myself.

Less of that “will I actually exist on the other side” worry.

It would be interesting to see the problems associated philosophically with the importance of self if we could literally break someone down and rebuild them without a care for the original.

#22

You’d be broken down and remade no matter whether it was done all at once or atom by atom. One thing would cease to be and then get copied. Also yes, wormholes all the way.

#23

For a moment I thought the thread was called ‘The Silence of Half-Life’.

Thankfully I was wrong.

#24

Gordon never talks.

Why?

#25

“Voice Systems Deactivated”

-HEV suit

Plus Alyx keeps interrupting his train of thought.

#26

His train of thought being “I’d that tap so hard!”

#27

fix’d

#28

If you’re gonna do it, do it right.

#29

Lol. I didn’t realise he’d ACTUALLY made a mistake. I didn’t realise I had either.

I wasn’t actually trying to fix his sentence, let me try again…

#30

oh lol

#31

What’s the matter? You’ve already been broken down and rematerialized many times up until now.

#32

Im sure glad im an athiest. Reading this thread as anything else would be horror.

#33

Athiest or not, you still dont want to not exist at any time. the way i see it, religious or not (partly religious here) if a you die and loose consciousnes, even if its for a split second, are you still going to be in control of your body at the other end? Its not the same body remember? so theres a decent chance a clone of you is running around the other side whilist the real you gets de-materialized and you dont exist anymore. just some lunatic on the other end who’s 100% sure hes the real you.

imo wormhole is the only way to teleport :smiley:

#34

The most used might be “Alyx, can’t you hold this :s wearing: gnome!?”

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