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Interesting also is perception of time and wether it's constant for all living things. Consider video cameras and frame rates. The moving picture is a progression of stills. Increase the number and you increase the fluidity of the picture but more importantly you can slow it down more. That's how we take pictures of explosions and falling rain in super slow motion.
Now think about flys and flying bugs. It's been speculated that they have eyes and brains with a faster frame rate than humans so they actually see in slow motion. So then to a fly is a falling drop of water truly slowor is their perception of time fast and time a constant?
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Ive come to the conclusion that time varies. An hour is perceived differently underdifferent circumstances by different people. Even though an hour is based upon the great 'timekeeper' the celestial bodies. Or is it based on the frequnecy of an atom ( atomic clocks). Either way its a natural clock. The fly analogy is interesting..
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As for teleportation that brings up the question of self and what is "you". You apparently have a soul and a self. But imagine if we beamed up by teleportation (Star Trek style) and your molecules were sampled into a binary pattern and then disintegrated with the pattern being sent to a reciever which remade you from local molecules. Which is you? The you that existed in the sending machine or the you in the reciever? Both? Okay but then what if the signal was sent to two recievers and they both reconstructed you from the pattern. Which is "you" now?
smoking-devil
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Exactly. Who is being transported. Star Trek being what it is/ neither entertained the concept of a being consisting of more than physical molecules. Even if the science was available it would be an "interesting" experiment. Prove a few theories one way or the other.