A problem with teleportation?

That IS an interesting point. How about adding this:

Would the disassembly process also destroy the soul?

Are memories just bio-electrical arrangements in the brain (thus possible of being duplicated in the re-assembly process) or are they tied to something higher, the soul, which cannot be re-created during re-assembly?

OR, is the soul just bio-electrical connections, and not a God-given component? What if the soul IS God-given, but destroyed during the teleportation process? Would the re-assembled "person" wake up as a soulless zombie? How much of our daily action are "soul-driven" and how much are learned or instinctive?

Personally, I think that teleportation of LIVING matter will be impossible for just these reasons. Anything living when it enters the "chamber" will be dead when it comes out.

I'm starting to sound like George Romero here, but I think YOU can see the point.

Please give me credit when you finish your book or movie script :-)

Sorry, this is not answerable.

1. Doubt that teleportation is possible.

2. If it were, no one knows how it operates, your hypothesis is only one of many.

3. How do you know the memories would not be recreated when the brain is recreated?

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Our only idea of teleportation is from fiction. Our current understanding of matter would make it impossible. If it was possible, our current understanding of life would make teleporting life impossible. Mind you, 100 years ago, they'd have said what we are doingon Y!A is impossible. One day, something resembling "beam me up Scotty" might be a reality, but there's an awful lot we need to discover first.

yea iv been thinking about this aswell, im not sure because it would have to depend on the way that teleportation worked :P i think that if they could break you down and re-create you in the EXACT way you were then it might have a chance at sucess but otherwise i doubt it.

i dont think that memories could be restored... but as you progress in life, your brain does make new electrical connections to other parts, which can enhance your thinking. these could be restored, and though hypothetically you cant restore memories, the teleported person could still learn about life around him quickly, and experience things he did before.

this also raises the question that if teleportation was possible, would you be broken down and copied to somewhere else? so therefore would you be dead but a copy of you still be alive? and assuming you are copied, then your memories and information would be copied also so you would retain that, assuming you are still you and not a copy.