Chen Chen once heard a small story:

The story is set in the distant future, when mankind has invented countless black technologies, one of which is teleportation technology.

Here's how it works: you walk into a teleportation platform, which is a very small room, and then you set up the place in the room where you're going to go, let's say you're going from Shangdu and you're going to Kyoto.

Once you've chosen your destination, you press the button, and the teleportation chamber's equipment begins to scan your entire body, collecting all the details of your body down to each atom and the exact location of each atom.

The teleportation chamber is destroying you as it scans, destroying every cell of yours and breaking it down into its most primitive particle state.

Once the scan is complete, you'll be completely destroyed, and the teleportation platform will send the collected information to the teleportation station in Kyoto, where it will reconstruct your body using the data recorded during the scan.

This may seem like a long time, but in fact, all the processes can be completed in one second, and in one second, you have crossed more than 2,000 kilometers from the capital of business to Kyoto.

And now you are no different from the previous self - your mood has not changed, your stomach is still a little hungry, and even the scratches on your fingers are still there. For you, all you feel is that you press the button, and your eyes go dark, and you're in Kyoto.

In the 28th century, this has become a common technology for everyone to get around, which is not only convenient but also safe.

But one day, you're going on a business trip, so you come to the teleportation room again, you press the button, and you hear the sound of the instrument scanning, but you're not teleported.

So, you go to the customer service staff at the teleportation station and tell her that the equipment in the teleportation room is broken, and the customer service takes a look at the usage records and tells you: "The scanning device is working fine, it collects all your data, but the cell destruction device that works in sync with the scanning device seems to be malfunctioning." ”

"I'm going to be late for work, you can use another departure room for me!" You don't bother to listen to her explanation, just emphasized.

The customer service opened the surveillance video, which showed you in Kyoto, "Look, this is the surveillance footage of your teleportation room in Kyoto, in fact, you have arrived in Kyoto." ”

Hearing this, you were completely furious: "But that's not me, because I'm still here!" ”

At this time, the customer service manager who heard the noise came over and explained to you, "The scanning equipment is indeed working normally, and "you" have indeed arrived in Kyoto, but the cell destruction equipment in the teleportation room here in Shanghai is broken, but don't worry, we just need to send you to another teleportation room, and then activate the cell destruction equipment inside alone to destroy you. ”

Although it has become common knowledge in the world to use the teleportation room to teleport yourself, at this time, you suddenly panicked: "Wait a minute, won't I die after being destroyed?" ”

The customer service manager explained: "It's not like this, sir, you look at the surveillance video, you are jumping around in Beijing." ”

Hearing this, you panicked even more: "But that's not me, that's just a copy, I'm the real me!" ”

The customer service and the manager looked at each other helplessly: "I'm sorry sir, but the law says that we must destroy your cells, and the law can't allow two of you to exist in the world at the same time." ”

You look at each other in horror and start running for your life, but two guards grab you from behind and drag you to another teleportation room......

……

Although this little story is a little ridiculous and funny, the truth is very straightforward - "you before being teleported" or "you after being teleported", which is the real you? ”

At this moment, Chen Chen smiled and explained to Xiao X, "Therefore, to truly define whether a person is oneself or not, in fact, it is still necessary to rely on consciousness to distinguish, and the 'consciousness' here does not refer to similarity, because in the previous story, if similarity can define a person, then the 'you' in Shangdu and the 'you' in Kyoto are the same person, because the two of you have the same memory and the same personality, but in fact? 'You' is 'you', but the 'you' in Kyoto is not 'you'. ”

"If similarity can't be defined, then what is?" Little X asked thoughtfully.

"Continuity, of course."

Chen Chen replied, "Human consciousness is continuous, your thinking, your character, your memory, together pile up your subjective consciousness, just like a baby grows into an adult, everything the baby experiences to form his consciousness today, you can't say that the 1-year-old and the 50-year-old him are not the same person." ”

"Indeed, from a physical point of view, you at the age of 10 have nothing in common with you at the age of 50, every cell in the body of the 1-year-old boy has been dead for decades, but the continuity of consciousness will not change, the 50-year-old may not remember his 1-year-old self, but he remembers himself at the age of 40, and at the age of 40, he remembers his 30-year-old self, even if it is amnesia, it does not essentially change this causal relationship......"

"I see!"

Little X immediately shouted, "In this way, the particle teleportation device has indeed destroyed the continuity of consciousness, and the consequence of breaking the continuity is to end the previous consciousness, even if it can copy this consciousness, it is not the original consciousness." ”

"Yes, consciousness is unique, and it is not something that can be perpetuated by copying."

Chen Chen nodded and said, "And in the TV series of "Star Trek", this teleportation device had a traffic accident, and in the TV series, when Captain Kirk was reorganized, it was actually assembled into two people, and a new parallel universe was generated, which means that this particle teleportation device is definitely problematic, and the problem is so big that even the USB flash drive thinks that it can be used in practice." ”

"In other words, it's not that this teleportation device is not scientific, but that no one is going to use it?" Little X asked.

"Yes, that's how it should be."

Chen Chen replied, "And "Killing City" and "Terminator" I tried a long time ago, these two movies are no problem, and they can be recognized by the USB flash drive, which means that their teleportation technology should be different from particle teleportation. ”

As he spoke, Chen Chen dragged the two movies "Terminator: Genesis" and "Killing City" to the USB flash drive.

only listened to a snort, and the two movies were smoothly dragged into the USB flash drive.

"In Terminator: Genisys, it's also the first time in the film series that there is a full view of a time machine, which is a huge platform like a small mountain, and it is impossible to capture reality, but its function is beyond all teleportation devices - it can teleport a life from one timeline to another, but wouldn't that create a time paradox?"

Chen Chen muttered, "Or, in fact, there is another explanation......