The poem Teletransportation Paradox by Brittney Smaila challenges traditional notions of identity, highlighting complexities of selfhood and technological influence.

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THE TECHNO-POET WHO KEEPS BLOWING MY MIND

When Brittney stepped up at the Space Centre last week, something shifted in the room. This was her fourth piece in our Vancouver AI meetup series, and she's evolved from poet to something we don't have a proper name for yet.

Those tracking her journey know she's not just playing with words - she's rewiring how we think about the weird future we're coding into existence. This teleportation paradox piece left permanent marks on my thinking.

THE TELEPORTATION PARADOX: OLD THOUGHT EXPERIMENT, NEW DIGITAL CONTEXT

The teleportation paradox isn't new - philosophers have chewed on this for decades. You're scanned, deconstructed, rebuilt elsewhere atom-by-atom. Is that still you stepping out?

Brittney's twist? Dragging this from abstract philosophy into our AI-saturated reality. Her "U Prime" isn't theoretical - it's the digital shadow taking form right now from your scattered online fragments.

"Are you 'U Prime,' or is U Prime…you?" When she delivered that line, I watched a room of tech veterans physically recoil. We're not just building tools anymore. We're building mirrors that might eventually outpace the original.

THE TECHNICAL EXECUTION: RHYTHM AS CODE, WORDS AS ALGORITHMS

The craft here was surgical. The poem's structure physically performs what it describes. Those stanzas building the rhythm of two identical selves blinking, breathing together - until one falls just half a beat behind? That's not just poetry - that's psychological engineering.

Her lines code the experience directly into your nervous system:

"You blink as I blink. The other you, blinking simultaneously. And you wait—as I wait—for the hostile motion that never comes."