If it has my memories and affects the world the way I would, that's me.
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ForgetReddit@lemmy.world 11 months agoTransporters become horrifying when you think of them as something obliterating all your molecules then recreating them somewhere else. The thing that comes out the other side has all your memories and personality and looks the same… but you 100% died when you got vaporized in the teleport.
I would never do it.
FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 11 months ago
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Look at any photograph or work of art. If you could duplicate exactly the first tiny dot of color, and then the next and the next, you would end with a perfect copy of the whole, indistinguishable from the original in every way, including the so-called “moral value” of the art itself. Nothing can transcend its smallest elements. CEO Nwabudike Morgan, “The Ethics of Greed”
Zorque@kbin.social 11 months ago
So... don't think of them like that. They clearly don't work that way in Trek.
ummthatguy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
For more information, watch the documentary “The Prestige”
MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 11 months ago
Oh man, that was a crazy reveal. And he kept them all!