Teleportation, as I understand it, consists of turning the human body into a stream of information/energy that would describe the precise state of every atom and sub-atomic particle, then beaming that information to some other location and reconstituting a body from it.
Since there would be no movement of actual matter from one location to another, I can’t see how the soul would be moved from what is literally one body into a new one. Its rather like the Greek speculative philsophy question of if you take a wood ship, and then replace every board that makes up the ship, is it still the same ship you started with, or is it a new one?
This is an interesting philosophical question though.
Hmm. I guess maybe it would depend on if the same body (atoms, molecules)was re-constructed if that method of travel was used. I can’t see the Church declairing the body who was reconstructed souless, however, but they might ban the use of such transportaion due to the initial transformation of the body. Maybe they would say it has a different soul. Perhaps if people always arrived dead but animals always survived that would be evidence that the process was divorcing the body from the soul? The problem in any case is you are still beaming it, so it is still going to take a while to get any where on a galactic scale. I’m not sure it would even qualify as “teleportation” as you are still moving through space, albeit at close to the speed of light as some type of beam of particles, sorta like the transporters from Star Trek.
I guess by teleportation I meant just shifting objects in space without moving. Or the worm-hole thing, where a short cut through space is created connecting to distant places, where you step through and appear somewhere else.
It is indeed interesting to think about!!
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