“But to construct an entire human being from scratch — to say nothing about whether that human being at the destination is even the same person as the one you began with at the source — is a different problem entirely.”
Do you mean “…to reconstruct an entire human being…” and not “from scratch” but from the state in which they existed in Place A before they recombobulate in Place B? Teleportation is not like sending a fax…it is more like the person vaporizing all its data from Place A and recombobulating it all back like a jigsaw puzzle in Place B. While I love the human body, it’s wonky because of all its meaty, sense-y, string-y, bone-y, keratin-y parts. The Particle Body. What if I just work on teleporting my Etheric Wave Body to the beach right now and pick up some etheric shells and driftwood?
Isn’t “Star Trek” possible because of the Etheric Wave Bodies of the imaginers/writers?
