@Daft_ish to [email protected] • edit-28 months agoWhat is your favorite paradox or conundrum? I am partial to can god kill god?message-square296arrow-up1143arrow-down119file-text
arrow-up1124arrow-down1message-squareWhat is your favorite paradox or conundrum? I am partial to can god kill god?@Daft_ish to [email protected] • edit-28 months agomessage-square296file-text
minus-squareIninewCrowlinkfedilinkEnglish11•8 months agoThe controversial thought experiment about Star Trek transporters. Where an individual is dematerialized in one location, transmitted as a signal somewhere else and rematerialized somewhere else. Were they killed when they were dematerialized, cloned and a newly born entity that is an exact clone rematerialized at the other end? Are they just killing people and recreating copies everytime they transport people?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•8 months agoWhat’s really gonna crumble your cookie is, “Does it matter?”
minus-squareDessalineslinkfedilink2•8 months agoEven in the trek universe, some people refuse to take transporters. I’d pry be one of them. You have no idea if you’re killing yourself every time, and its just clones out the other side.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•8 months ago Are they just killing people and recreating copies everytime they transport people? Yes, it literally Prestiges you, as evidenced by the time it didn’t kill Riker and there were two of him
The controversial thought experiment about Star Trek transporters.
Where an individual is dematerialized in one location, transmitted as a signal somewhere else and rematerialized somewhere else.
Were they killed when they were dematerialized, cloned and a newly born entity that is an exact clone rematerialized at the other end?
Are they just killing people and recreating copies everytime they transport people?
Explained in https://existentialcomics.com/comic/1
What’s really gonna crumble your cookie is, “Does it matter?”
Even in the trek universe, some people refuse to take transporters. I’d pry be one of them. You have no idea if you’re killing yourself every time, and its just clones out the other side.
Yes, it literally Prestiges you, as evidenced by the time it didn’t kill Riker and there were two of him