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UlyssesT@hexbear.net 1 year agoIt is you who is trying to construct the idea that a hypothetical transporter clone is not the real person they were cloned from
I didn’t actually make that claim, especially because the matter-to-energy-and-back-to-matter stream supposedly in the lore uses the same material and there’s even an intermission “zone” featured in some episodes showing a continuity during the transition, including conversations taking place. It’s practically science magic at that point, especially after James Doohan famously answered the question of how the Heisenburg Compensator works with “it works very well, thank you very much!” but I just let it be its own thing as fiction.
On the other hand, the OP’s comic and the typical thought experiment requires utter and complete fungible matter destruction in one place and construction in another place with no continuity asked for or even tried, instead waving it off entirely with something like “perfect copy is literally the exact same person, individual consciously lived experience don’t real. Because original was destroyed, not like you can ask them.”
It is funny
I don’t respond well to Reddit talk so that’s as far as I will answer you: the part above that.
LtLiana@startrek.website 1 year ago
UlyssesT@hexbear.net 1 year ago
What you are continuing to outright dodge, ignoring my original argument for the sake of apparent convenience, is that the moment the thought experiment doesn’t kill the original person, it becomes absurd to tell that not-killed person that they are totally over there now while still standing there, not disintegrated. There are now two people that have the same root of matter composition and experiments, but the moment it is allowed that the perfect copy can be made without the original being destroyed in the thought experiment, your claims seem much more like magical thinking than what you claim I am doing.
projection
I was part of that discussion and no one else took issue until you did, here or on any other discussion I had here.
No. I want to ask you to stop replying to me if all you’re going to do is make more personal attacks, however.