Quantum Mechanics has always fascinated me -- that is, what little of it my mind can comprehend. I was recently looking through Wikipedia on various Quantum Mechanic topics and came across an entry for Quantum Teleportation. It is an interesting theory about being able to teleport the state of particles into other particles at another location.

In essence, you would then have an exact copy of something in another location. Not the original, but an exact, atom for atom, replica. I then wondered about teleporting a person this way, purely hypothetical of course.

If you could take every particle that makes up your body and teleport their states into 'blank' particles in another location you would have your complete physical body, brain, synapses' and all, in that new location. Would your soul follow it?

I don't think so. I believe that our soul is what separates us from all other species.

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Our soul is what makes us self-aware. It's what drives us to do the things that make us human -- because we know we exist. And it is our soul that is outside of our body -- connected somehow in a divinely miraculous way!

By changing the state of the physical building blocks of a person in another location you would make no connection to the essence of what makes that them human. Would it work with life that does not have a soul? Could you teleport your dog this way? Maybe. What do you thing?