Transporters work by de-assembling something (e.g. you) and re-assembling it somewhere else. What if, when you’re dis-assembled, you die, and the re-assembled version of you is essentially a copy? Then every time someone steps onto a transporter, their final thought before death is that they’ll end up beamed somewhere else. And the re-assembled version (copy) just thinks that everything went fine and continues on like nothing bad happened.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “No one ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and they’re not the same person.” - Heraclitus

    What if the feeling that you are the same “person” as you were yesterday, or even as you were 5 seconds ago was illusory all along? What if you “die” and a new you is born many times a second all the time?