Would you step through a wormhole like in scifi series stargate?

[HydrogenBond]

Wasn't there another sci-fi movie, where the body stayed in the lab and only the mind was transferred elsewhere in space and time. This prevents death to the original bio-unit, does the same thing, but gives one more options with respect to the body-machine on the other side. If you want to explore Venus the new titanium-carbon super android XP might be a good choice of body.

[TheFaithfulStone]

HOLLOW. HARDEN. DEHYDRATE.

[GAHD]

Originally Posted by Kriminal99

My first philosophy teacher once posed a question. Suppose you used a teleportation system at an airport fairly often, but one day when you got to the other side you saw on a camera that an exact copy of you that stepped in the teleporter from where you came was still there thinking the teleporter was broken....How would this be different from any other time you used the teleport (the part where your are destroyed at the first location before being sent to the second.

I've been pondering this idea myself. In the end I've come to this conclusion:
E=MCC
M=your weight.

To create your 'clone', you need enough E to create M, as C is fixed. The only way I could see teleportation working is if your original self was used as the 'energy building blocks'. The philosophy changes a bit when you consider using the same energy the whole way through the process: without the original there can be no clone, and that clone is more "you" on reconstruction than "you" will be in 3 years.

It would be cool though. I know I'd build myself a machine and purposely try to break it that way again; There's not enough of me to go around.

[Jay-qu]

If you could somehow teleport the wavefunction that is your entire body would you be more likely to use this technology?