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Science Fiction

getagrip_already

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1. Meh, exestential questions....

Reply to Pluvious (Original post)

Tue Dec 10, 2024, 04:15 PM

Dec 10

Interesting but not worth breaking a metaphysical sweat over.

Was it creating a clone or moving a soul?

The writers took the position that they were moving a soul from point a to point b. How that happened was poetry and mumbo jumbo.

But it could just as easily have been dissolving matter at point a and creating an exact molecular copy at point b, right down to electrical memories.

In that case your point a body would die and your point b body would live, but they wouldnt be the same, except they would have the same memories, thoughts, reactions, and perceptions.

Since its all fiction, not worth breathing over.

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