Postby Elessar » Thu Aug 09, 2007 6:26 am
Well... A transporter could be used to actually switch brains in bodies, that's about the only way it could happen, is if only your brain got transmitted over to the MU and it went precisely into the right place in your MU counterpart's head, connecting exactly right to the spinal cord in the right place on a microscopic level, etc. I see what you're saying about consciousness being a sum of our physical brains, but I don't think that makes it any more likely that a transporter would transport just your consciousness. When they operate a transporter, I think we're meant to believe they are focusing it like a weapon on a specific area, so either the whole body goes, or just a part of it goes.
I suppose...that with some kind of device OTHER than a transporter, you're saying you could induce the particles in your brain to shift realities, just the brain, and therefore the consciousness would transmit over to the MU because of the whole quantum-nature-of-particles-and-parallel-universes thing? That's possible, but it would equate to basically the same thing as transporting the brain, except that you're kind of relying on the quantum nature of the particles in your brain to do all the work once they're just 'catalyzed' to do it, in some way.